nodate and other literals in danish-apa.lbx

[Hen-Rex]

Hi @plk

I noticed that a lot of the literals / bibliography strings in danish-apa.lbx have no translation and are marked with "% FIXME".

Also, the "nodate" string is missing entirely from danish-apa.lbx

Do you need help translating these into Danish and is there a reason why "nodate" is missing?

[Hen-Rex]

I tried adding "nodate" into danish-apa.lbx, but for some reason it does not make any difference? How come?

nodate = {{s\adddot d\adddot}{s\adddot d\adddot}},

[plk]

Yes, if there are any %FIXME, this means any contribution to these translations is appreciated. nodate isn't defined by the APA style, it's a biblatex core localisation string - you'll find it in the danish.lbx in the biblatex distribution.

[Hen-Rex]

Hi

I have made the changes and fixed all Danish FIXME strings. I am not an avid user of Github so I don't know if I can just merge these changes?

As for "nodate", it does appear in the biblatex danish.lbx file, but documents still write "nodate" in the list of references despite of this:

\DeclareLanguageMapping{danish}{danish-apa}

Looking at spanish-apa.lbx of the biblatex-apa package - it also has a separate "nodate" string. If I declare my language mapping to spanish-apa it works (but in Spanish):

\DeclareLanguageMapping{danish}{spanish-apa}

I have tried adding a nodate translation in danish-apa.lbx, but it does not work. Editing nodate in spanish-apa.lbx does work. So I don't know why Spanish works, but not Danish.

[plk]

In github, you can just make a "pull request" that I can merge. Are you using the latest APA style version? You don't need the \DeclareLanguageMapping and this may just override the biblatex strings if they are present (spanish is an anomaly) which explains the issue you are seeing.

[Hen-Rex]

I have made the pull request now. I added the "nodate" literal, but could not figure out how to edit the commit since it did not allow me to do so.

I have an additional question. biblatex's standard danish.lbx file already contains references to:

• bathesis
• mathesis
• candthesis
• phdthesis

But danish-apa.lbx only references:

• mathesis
• phdthesis

Isn't that an issue? Should danish-apa.lbx and the remaining language files belonging to biblatex-apa drop its own translations in favor of the standard biblatex translations found in the normal biblatex repo?

[Hen-Rex]

Hi, sorry if you received a lot of notifications. I was trying to figure out how to commit from my own Github branch to the master branch.

In addition to fixing the standard biblatex danish.lbx I have also added all missing translations to biblatex-apa danish-apa.lbx

Most importantly, I wish to advise that:

• I removed references to 'mathesis' and 'phdthesis' from danish-apa.lbx as these translations are pretty standard and already provided by the standard biblatex danish.lbx file, as we discussed.
• I don't find it necessary to duplicate the info the the danish-apa.lbx file
• If necessary, please advise, because otherwise we then also need to offer additional translations (i.e. bathesis, mathesis, candthesis and phdthesis).
• These transaltions could be copied straight from biblatex's danish.lbx if it is really necessary.

[Hen-Rex]

Yes, it seems the 'nodate' issue stems from an outdated version of biblatex-apa.lbx that I used. I updated to the latest version of biblatex and biblatex-apa, which seems to have resolved the issue.