I’m dealing with print sources from the 17th century which can have really long titles and I’m citing with chicago-shortened-notes. I need to shorten the titles if I don’t want my notes to take up the entire page (Short Form & Ibid. - Chicago Style (18th Edition) Citation Guide - Library Guides at University of Portland). Sadly hayagriva-yaml doens’t supply shorttilte or anything else (to my knowledge) to account for csl <text variable="title" form="short"/> so I was wondering whether I could use a workaround where the bibliography uses a yaml file with full titles while the cite function uses another with shortitles. Or a yaml file with two vairants of the same source where one appears in the bibliography and the other in the note? Any ideas?
Hi, hayagriva-yaml supports short as a sub-key of title and should according to #174 map to the mentioned CSL short form.
title:
value: Some very long title
short: Short title
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I had the same issue a few days ago. The file format file does not mention it at all, but at least it’s in the example file, now that I looked in it. There is a tiny indirect reference to it, but I wouldn’t say that’s accessible or easy to understand. What help me find is that I knew for a fact that there was/gotta be a way to specify short title, and I found an answer in one of the issues, I believe.
I also didn’t find it in the documentation, but I remembered that it was implemented so I just converted a Bib(La)TeX entry with shorttitle to yaml.