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Handling comments on online forum posts #234

Open viccie30 opened 3 months ago

viccie30 commented 3 months ago

Biblatex-apa correctly handles a coment on an online periodical article or post, like example 10.1:18 in the Publication Manual or the newspaper comment example on the APA website. This also neatly covers the blog comment example on the website. However, the website also specifies a forum comment example that has the title of the related work in italics instead of quoted. This (sort of) example is not mentioned in the Publication Manual and biblatex-apa currently hardcodes quoting the title of the referenced work in the related:commenton bibmacro at https://github.com/plk/biblatex-apa/blob/cd2a723384ffe6e2a542913cb0277474dff38487/tex/latex/biblatex-apa/bbx/apa.bbx#L1315-L1317. I guess the formatting needs to change based on the formatting of the title of the referenced entry to match the forum comment example.

viccie30 commented 3 months ago

For now I've added this to my biblatex.cfg, using the citetitle format from aba.cbx:

\renewbibmacro*{related:commenton}[1]{%
  \entrydata*{#1}{%
    \printtext[citetitle]{\printfield[apacase]{title}}}}

It seems that the citetitle format uses the same general rule that APA uses to determine quoting or italicizing titles: standalone works get italics, works that are parts of a larger work get quotes. citetitle also has rules for different kinds of legal references, but those are messed up in APA anyways, so I can't imagine this would make comments on legal documents any more valid or invalid.