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Indexing of single and multiple Psalms in bibleref / bibleref-german

TeX - LaTeX Asked by greektex on April 28, 2021

In scholarship, a single reference to a Psalm is abbreviated with “Ps” (for “Psalm”), while references to several Psalms are abbreviated as “Pss” (“Psalms”).

The bibleref-german package does accommodate for that by printing “Pss” when the abbreviation “Ps” is used, and by defining a new book “Psalm”, for which the abbreviation “Ps” is printed.

This is how the book is defined in bibleref-german.sty:

defbr@Psalm{PsBRperiod}%
defbr@Psalms{PssBRperiod}%

My MWE looks like this:

documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{scrbook}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[RGG]{bibleref-german}
usepackage{makeidx}
makeindex

begin{document}
Single psalm reference: ibibleverse{Psalm}(23:1)

Multiple psalm references: ibibleverse{Ps}(119:105); ibiblechvs{Ps}(121:2)

printindex
end{document}

It looks like this in the rendered text:

Single psalm reference: Ps 23,1

Multiple psalm references: Pss 119,105; 121,2

The problem is that this differentiation is then also made in the index, i.e. there are two different entries for “Ps” and “Pss” in the index:

Bibleref index for Psalms

I want to differentiate in the text between “Ps” and “Pss”, but have all references listed under “Pss” in the index (or “Ps”, for that matter). How do I achieve that the references to Ps as well as the references to Psalm are both mapped to Pss in the index?

One Answer

I wasn't sure how to fix bibref (or bibref-german), so what I did is replace the book name in the *.idx file before it is processed by makeindex.

First of all, I need to specify a mapping in which "Ps" and "Pss" have the same order:

[...]
biblerefmap{Ps}{23} 
biblerefmap{Pss}{23} 
[...]

Then, after compiling the tex file and before creating the index, I need to do a string replacement (for instance, by using sed, see alternatives here):

pdflatex file.tex
sed -i "s/BRbooktitlestyle {Pss}/BRbooktitlestyle {Ps}/g" file.idx
makeindex file.idx
pdflatex file.tex

Answered by greektex on April 28, 2021

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