Use with authoryear?

[carbeck]

Hi,

I'm writing my thesis in the interference area between philology and historical linguistics (my primary thesis advisor is a linguist), so I decided to use biblatex-chicago for its authordate style for now (which seems to have some currency in linguistics publications AFAICT). However, I still need to cite the manuscripts I'm analyzing, and working around biblatex-chicago's limitations by putting the shelfmark in the title field of a @book entry doesn't always work as intended—in absence of an author definition it produces things like:

Erewhon, Library of Babel, Ms. 1234 Third quarter 13th century: fol. 1r-2v

Thus, your package would come in handy as a solution.

Your package extends the standard styles, and I'd be fine with reverting to authoryear, but verbose (and authortitle) seems to be hardcoded. It'd be nice if there were a way to change that, since citation by author/title is really unusual e.g. in linguistics.

[maieul]

Please provide 1. Bibliographical MWE 2. Expected output

[carbeck]

Never mind, I think I figured out now how to combine the functionality of manuscripts with the citing and bibliography style of authoryear. MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}

@manuscript{vor:cod-276,
	title		= {Kaiserchronik},
	titleaddon	= {A},
	shorthand	= {A1},
	sorttitle	= {kc:A1},
	sortkey		= {kc:A01},

	location	= {Vorau},
	library		= {Stiftsarchiv des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes},
	shortlibrary	= {StfA},
	shelfmark	= {StAV-Ms~276},
	dating		= {4th~quarter 12th~century},
	support		= {parchment},
	columns		= {2},
	pagination	= {folio},
	pages		= {1ra--73vb},
	doi		= {10.11588/diglit.29478},
}

@book{paul2007,
	author		= {Hermann Paul},
	editor		= {Thomas Klein and Hans-Joachim Solms and Klaus-Peter Wegera},
	editora		= {Ingeborg Schröbler and Heinz-Peter Prell},
	editoratype	= {collaborator},
	title		= {Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik},
	edition		= {25},
	series		= {Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken germanischer Dialekte, A. Hauptreihe},
	number		= {2},
	publisher	= {Niemeyer},
	location	= {Tübingen},
	date		= {2007},
	pagination	= {section},
}

\end{filecontents}

% Force 'manuscripts' to use authoryear for bibstyle
\usepackage[
    tools=manuscripts,
    bibstyle=authoryear,
]{biblatex-multiple-dm}

\usepackage[
    bibstyle=multiple-dm, % use the above
    citestyle=authoryear,
    backend=biber,
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item Text-citing \texttt{@manuscript}: \textcite[\ppno~10rb--11ra]{vor:cod-276}
\item Text-citing \texttt{@book}: \textcite[\pno~M~23]{paul2007}
\item Title-citing \texttt{@manuscript}: \citetitle{vor:cod-276}
\item Field-citing \texttt{@manuscript}:
    \citelist{vor:cod-276}{location},
    \citefield{vor:cod-276}{library},
    \citefield{vor:cod-276}{shelfmark}
\end{itemize}

\printshorthands[type=manuscript]
\printbibliography

\end{document}

If I replace authoryear with chicago-authordate—which is the style I've been using so far—LaTeX complains about the macros begentry, bbx:related, and bbx:url being undefined. This is probably due to incompatibilities between the standard bibliography styles and the biblatex-chicago package.

[maieul]

Indeed. We could implement something to avoid such error (quite easy), but the best solution should be to see if there is equivalent in biblatex-chicago. I don't know.... and not so much time for this problem.