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diff --git a/man/colitur-config.5 b/man/colitur-config.5 index 8f21028..6b3a574 100644 --- a/man/colitur-config.5 +++ b/man/colitur-config.5 @@ -181,6 +181,69 @@ accepts it. Relevant only to which requires a format either from this setting or from .BR \-\-format ; no default. +.TP +.B sigla_style +Which citation STYLE to render book names and punctuation with: a language +code, or a path to a file carrying a +.B [sigla] +section. Defaults to the resolved +.IR lang , +so a booklet's citations follow its own language unless told otherwise. +See +.BR colitur (1)'s +.B SIGLA +section for the five style settings. +.TP +.B sigla_book +.BR full " or " abbr . +Overrides the selected style's own +.B book +setting. Default +.BR abbr , +giving +.B "Luc. 5:12\-14" +rather than +.BR "Evangelium secundum Lucam 5:12\-14" . +An unrecognised value is a hard error, the same discipline as an unknown +.BR \-\-lang . +.TP +.B sigla_tradition +A section name in +.IR lang/traditions.ini , +deciding which book a reference DENOTES rather than what it is called. +Default +.BR vulgate , +the identity \(em colitur never renumbers unless asked. With +.B modern +the Vulgate's own +.B "3 Kings 19:3\-8" +renders as +.B "1 Reg 19:3\-8" +in Latin, or +.B "1 Kgs 19:3\-8" +under +.BR "\-\-lang en" . +In Latin the modern tradition only really moves Kings and Esdras: Osee, +Ionas, Ecclesiasticus and the Apocalypse keep their Vulgate names either +way, because modern numbering is a vernacular convention. +Unlike +.IR sigla_book , +an unrecognised value is NOT fatal: it warns on stderr and falls back to +.BR vulgate , +because asking for a renumbering is optional the way asking for a language +is not. +.PP +Naming and renumbering are deliberately separate mechanisms. +.I sigla_style +selects what a book is CALLED, which varies by language; +.I sigla_tradition +selects which book a reference DENOTES, which does not \(em "modern +numbering" is the same decision in Latin, Polish and English. Conflating +them is how a citation ends up naming the wrong book. +.PP +None of these affect +.BR \-\-raw , +which emits every citation exactly as stored, byte for byte. .SH UNKNOWN KEYS AND SECTIONS A key inside .B [defaults] |
