% \endinput

\environment publications-style

\startcomponent publications-journals

\startchapter[title=Journals]

An experimental feature is the ability to load a list of mapping from complete
journal names to abbreviated forms.

\startbuffer
\btxloadjournallist[journals.txt] % the jabref list

\btxexpandedjournal   {Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz} or
\btxabbreviatedjournal{Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz} or
\btxabbreviatedjournal{Z. Ökol. Nat. schutz}
\stopbuffer

\typeTEXbuffer \getbuffer

In this case the text file looks like:

\starttyping
Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz = Z. Ökol. Nat..schutz
....
\stoptyping

Instead you can have a \LUA\ file that looks like:

\startLUA
return {
    ["Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz"] = "Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz",
    ...
}
\stopLUA

or

\startLUA
return {
    { "Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz", "Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz" },
    ...
}
\stopLUA

A file can be saved with:

\startTEX
\btxsavejournallist[journals.lua]
\stopTEX

and then loaded again in a second run. For small lists it makes not much sense
to cache the lists but if you have tens thousands of journals it can be
considered. Normally loading is can be neglected compared to the run. Anyhow,
such a list looks like this:

\startLUA
return {
    ["abbreviations"]={
        ["zeitschriftfürökologieundnaturschutz"] = "Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz",
    },
    ["expansions"]={
        ["zökolnatschutz"] = "Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz",
    },
}
\stopLUA

In the future \type {mtx-bibtex} might be able to generate such lists (once we know
what users come up with).

You can add additional entries with:

\startTEX
\btxaddjournal
  [Zeitschrift für Ökologie und Naturschutz]
  [Z. Ökol. Nat.schutz]
\stopTEX

As usual with such mechanisms, internally spaces, punctuation and case are
ignored with a lookup.

There are also two manipulators for journals: \type {expandedjournal} and
\type {abbreviatedjournal}.

\stopchapter

\stopcomponent