This actually seems to be rooted in a more general problem with the publications support module. Why does invoking the fastsetup for citations work within the default footnote setup, but not within endnotes flushed via \placenotes[footnote]? If I modify the original MWE to use ConTeXt's default btx rendering, I get the same error: ``` \startbuffer [bib] @Book{clark1989, author = {Clark, William}, title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico}, publisher = {New Mexico Magazine}, year = {1989}, address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico}, isbn = {9780937206126} } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset[bib.buffer] \setupbtx[dataset=default] \setupnote[footnote][location=none] % commenting out this line will produce footnotes that expand the citation correctly \starttext \input knuth \cite[alternative=footnote][clark1989] \page \placenotes[footnote] \startchapter[title=Bibliography] \placelistofpublications \stopchapter \stoptext ``` If it helps, the relevant code in publications support is the following block in publ-imp-cite.mkvi: ``` \startsetups \s!btx:\s!cite:footnote \startfootnote \fastsetup{btx:cite:entry} \stopfootnote \stopsetups ``` The \fastsetup{btx:cite:entry} doesn't expand to anything if the footnote is flushed as an endnote via \placenotes[footnote]. Does anyone have any idea why this happens and how to fix it? Joey On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 3:34 PM Joey McCollum wrote:

A reasonable solution for the time being would be to check if the righttext argument is empty, and add a final period in the footnote only if it is not (with the assumption being that the user would provide punctuation in any righttext for footnote/endnote citations). I've pushed the following change to the GitHub repo, if you'd like to pull and use it:

``` % Inline footnote citation setup (with intelligent trailing punctuation replacement) \startsetups btx:sbl:cite:footnote \removeunwantedspaces

\doifinstring{\btxparameter{punct}}{\btxparameter{autopunctuation}}{\btxparameter{punct}} \begingroup \letbtxparameter{punct}\empty % don't pass the trailing punctuation down to the inline setup \startfootnote \Word{\fastsetup{btx:sbl:cite:inline}}% capitalize the first word in the footnote (needed to render "Ibid." and "Idem" correctly) % Add a closing period if there is no righttext \doif{\btxparameter{righttext}}{\empty} { \btxperiod } \stopfootnote \endgroup

\doifnotinstring{\btxparameter{punct}}{\btxparameter{autopunctuation}}{\btxparameter{punct}} \stopsetups ```

This should allow your script to compile, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to make endnotes work, at least not when I try it. For some reason, the macro \Word{\fastsetup{btx:sbl:cite:inline}} is expanding to nothing inside the \startfootnote ... \stopfootnote environment. I have no idea why this is happening, so any ideas are appreciated.

Joey

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 1:11 PM Joey McCollum wrote:

...

Joel,

You may not have done anything wrong; this may be an issue with ConTeXt-SBL. In my code for the btx:sbl:cite:footnote setup in publ-imp-sbl.mkvi, I added a comment to this effect:

``` \startsetups btx:sbl:cite:footnote \removeunwantedspaces

\doifinstring{\btxparameter{punct}}{\btxparameter{autopunctuation}}{\btxparameter{punct}} \begingroup \letbtxparameter{punct}\empty % don't pass the trailing punctuation down to the inline setup \let\doifendswithpunctelse\btx_sbl_doifendswithpunctelse % why is this necessary? For some reason, \btx_sbl_doifendswithpunctelse is not recognized within the footnote environment... \startfootnote \Word{\fastsetup{btx:sbl:cite:inline}}% capitalize the first word in the footnote (needed to render "Ibid." and "Idem" correctly) % Add a closing period, unless the righttext ends with punctuation \doifendswithpunctelse{\btxparameter{righttext}} { \removeunwantedspaces } { \removeunwantedspaces \btxperiod } \stopfootnote \endgroup

\doifnotinstring{\btxparameter{punct}}{\btxparameter{autopunctuation}}{\btxparameter{punct}} \stopsetups ```

I define the \btx_sbl_doifendswithpunctelse macro earlier in the module. Initially, when I tried to invoke this macro within the \startfootnote ... \stopfootnote environment (to conditionally add a period at the end of a footnote citation if it does not have a righttext ending with punctuation), I got the same error you got, but for \btx_sbl_doifendswithpunctelse. I wasn't sure why this was happening, so I tried defining a new \doifendswithpunctelse macro. Unfortunately, based on your e-mail, it looks like this doesn't actually fix the problem.

Any help from other developers would be appreciated here! Unfortunately, I don't have a MWE replicating the problem on hand at the moment.

Joey

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM Joel via ntg-context wrote:

...

I am using the ConTeXt-SBL package for citations. I need to move my footnotes to the end of each article.

According to the manual, I can suppress the placement of footnotes using two lines of code. I've added these to my minimal working code, placing \setupnote[footnote][location=none] in the header and \placenotes[footnote] where I want the endnotes to appear. It complains this error:

"Undefined control sequence \doifendswithpunctelse"

What did I do wrong?

--Joel

Code follows:

\usemodule[publ-imp-sbl] \startbuffer [bib]

@Article{na2006, title={Volcanoes \word{of} New Mexico}, year={2006}, journal={New Mexico Earth Matters}, publisher={New Mexico Bureau \word{of} Geology \word{and} Mineral Resources}, volume={6}, number={1}, location={Socorro, New Mexico} }

@Book{clark1989, author = {Clark, William}, title = {Railroads \word{and} railroad towns \word{in} New Mexico}, publisher = {New Mexico Magazine}, year = {1989}, address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico}, isbn = {9780937206126} }

\stopbuffer

\usebtxdataset[bib.buffer]

\setupbtx[dataset=default] \usebtxdefinitions[sbl] \setupbtx[sbl]

\setupnote[footnote][location=none]

\starttext

\input knuth \cite[clark1989]

\placenotes[footnote]

\startchapter[title=Bibliography] \placelistofpublications \stopchapter

\stoptext

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