Short Titles: Why do certain books have them while certain others don't?
I'm trying to figure out when and why Faithlife assigns short titles to some volumes and not to others.
To my mind, works like "Transformation in Christ: On the Christian Attitude" have a structurally obvious short title: "Transformation in Christ" that Faithlife did not put in. Meanwhile, "The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications" has a factory-standard "The Reformation" short title.
Other works, if someone is at all familiar with them, also have obvious short titles not given by Faithlife: "A Book of Contemplation the Which Is Called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul Is Oned with God" is "The Cloud of Unknowing". Meanwhile, "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah" gets "Edersheim: Life and Times".
Some journals, like Themelios and First Things, have short titles. Others, like Semeia and Letter & Spirit, do not.
(Yes, I know I can add or edit short titles, and I do. This thread is not about that.)
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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bump 7
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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bump 7?
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bumping your message to the top in hopes that it will be answered the second time around. the 7 is simply to avoid having the spam detective handcuff me and throw me in the dungeon for repeating myself.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thank you
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Some of this is done by hand, and there may be inconsistency (or older resources produced before we did this). We typically create the short titles for books with awkward titles and well-known popular 'short handles', but that's a subjective and sometimes personal distinction.
There are also "Titles: Subtitles" and algorithmic shortening to abbreviation, used in some cases.
As we do maintenance and revise books this is one of the things we look at.
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Bob Pritchett said:
Some of this is done by hand, and there may be inconsistency (or older resources produced before we did this). We typically create the short titles for books with awkward titles and well-known popular 'short handles', but that's a subjective and sometimes personal distinction.
There are also "Titles: Subtitles" and algorithmic shortening to abbreviation, used in some cases.
As we do maintenance and revise books this is one of the things we look at.
Thanks for explaining, Bob!
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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