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I have the same problem that is described here: Colon (:) instead of period (.) after author with biblatex, alphabetic

My problem is that this solution does not work for biblatex-sbl and so I wanted to ask how can I have global (for all entries in the bibliography (book, incolection, thesis, review,...); the notes should not be changed) a colon after the name?

This question was also asked here: https://golatex.de/umstellung-auf-biblatex-sbl-in-fussnoten-und-literaturverz-t21903.html but the answer was only that it is very complicated. Here is my MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibdriver{XXX}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}{\addcolon\space}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {}
  {}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Engelmann:2013,
  author      = {Engelmann, Hans and Bengelmann, Franz},
  title       = {Die Sicht},
  location    = {Berlin},
  publisher   = {De Gruyter},
  date        = {2013},
  series      = {Gamma Omega, I. Reihe: Alpha},
  shortseries = {GO.A},
  number      = {4},
}
@mvlexicon{TRE,
  editor     = {Schwertner, Siegried M.},
  title      = {Theologische Realenzyklopädie},
  shorttitle = {TRE},
  volumes    = {36},
  location   = {Berlin and New York},
  publisher  = {De Gruyter},
  date       = {1976/2004},
  shorthand  = {TRE}
}
@inlexicon{Poe:1994,
  author = {Poe, Edgar},
  title  = {Art. Dichtung},
  volume = {2},
  pages  = {9--343},
  xref   = {TRE}
}
@review{Well.19,
author={Well, Jan},
revdauthor = {Ban, Peter},
revdtitle={Select. Tomus I, Paris 1950},
journaltitle = {Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen},
shortjournal = {GGA},
volume={18,2},
 keywords = {sekundaer},
date={1826},
pages={14--18},
}
@article{Wink:2000,
  author       = {Wink, Gert},
  title        = {„Mega“. Anmerkungen},
  shorttitle   = {„Mega“},
  journaltitle = {Critica storia},
  shortjournal = {Cs},
  volume       = {34,1},
  date         = {2000},
  pages        = {9--24}
}
@article{Wink:2003,
  author       = {Wink, Gert},
  title        = {„Mega II“. Anmerkungen},
  shorttitle   = {„Mega“},
  journaltitle = {Critica storia},
  shortjournal = {Cs},
  volume       = {41,4},
  date         = {2003},
  pages        = {11--22}
}
@incollection{peterson:1993,
  author     = {Peterson, David},
  title      = {The Motif of Fulfilment and the Purpose of Luke-Acts},
  shorttitle = {Motif of Fulfilment},
  pages      = {83-104},
  volume     = {1},
  maintitle  = {The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting},
  editor     = {Winter, Bruce W.},
  location   = {Grand Rapids},
  publisher  = {Eerdmans},
  date       = {1993},
}
@book{Pritchard:1969,
  editor    = {Pritchard, James B.},
  title     = {Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament},
  edition   = {3},
  location  = {Princeton},
  publisher = {Princeton University Press},
  date      = {1969},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}


\begin{document}
\printbiblist{abbreviations}

Die Debatten.\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Poe:1994} und \cite{Wink:2000}.} Dies gilt analog für die Gegner.\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Wink:2003}.} Die beiden erwähnten\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Wink:2003}.} Bezeichnungen als „besonders“\footnote{\cite[1]{Engelmann:2013}.} verstanden werden.\footnote{\cite[Vgl.][1]{Engelmann:2013}. Siehe auch: \cite{peterson:1993}, \cite{Pritchard:1969}.} und \cite{Well19}.}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

I recognize that the solution is:

\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibdriver{XXX}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}{\addcolon\space}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {}
  {}

And it works quite well (for "XXX", it has to be "book", "article", etc.). But I am wondering that "review" does not work - why?

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    I think David Purton has mentioned in response to some of your questions that biblatex-sbl does not (yet) support the standard way to deal with this (namely nametitledelim as in the linked answer). See for example tex.stackexchange.com/q/504377/35864. There is really no pretty way to get this done with versions of biblatex-sbl without nametitledelim. You will have to patch or modify the drivers. And indeed, earlier questions of yours already contain patches to try and get nametitledelim working (tex.stackexchange.com/q/504238/35864).
    – moewe
    Commented Aug 19, 2019 at 19:25
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    The cite:review driver is slightly different to the others. My previous answer at tex.stackexchange.com/a/504488/87678 shows the appropriate patch for the review entry type. Does it not work for you? To determine what the patch must be, you must look through every driver in sbl.cbx and change the patch appropriately. Not all the drivers contain \newunit\usebibmacro{title}, so the standard patch mentioned in your question doesn't work.
    – David Purton
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 0:00
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    Also please note, that the patch command you have above in your MWE is not the same as what I have given in previous answers.
    – David Purton
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 0:27

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As mentioned in my previous answer, there is no straight forward way to do this in biblatex-sbl yet. From the next release, this answer will work, but until then you have to patch every single cite:… driver from the file sbl.cbx and every driver from sbl.bbx.

I've gone through the two files and done this for you for every entry type that biblatex-sbl supports. But it's not that hard. It's just a matter of reading through the source in sbl.cbx and sbl.bbx, seeing where the author is printed and replacing the appropriate \newunit with the context sensitive \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}} which we can control independently based on first citation, subsequent citation, and bibliography.

I also added a redefinition of \namedashpunct and a patch to the author bibmacro to ensure that there is a colon after the name dash in the bibliography as well.

I know that it's frustrating to have to make these changes to biblatex-sbl. But you need to remember that the style is explicitly designed to do what the SBL wants and I haven't gone out of my way to make changes easy.

MWE

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[german=quotes]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}

\usepackage{xpatch}

% set up nametitledelim in different contexts
\DeclareDelimFormat[none,bib,biblist]{nametitledelim}{%
  \ifciteseen
    {\addcomma\space}
    {\addcolon\space}}

% also put colon after dash
\renewcommand*{\namedashpunct}{\addcolon\space}
\xpatchbibmacro{author}
  {\renewcommand*{\namedashpunct}{\adddot\space}}
  {\renewcommand*{\namedashpunct}{\addcolon\space}}
  {\message{Patching `author': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `author': Failure^^J}}

% patch citation drivers
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:ancienttext}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:ancienttext': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:ancienttext': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:classictext}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{shorttitlenohyperlink}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{shorttitlenohyperlink}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:classictext': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:classictext': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:article}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:article': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:article': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:book}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:book': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:book': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:suppbook}
  {\usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:suppbook': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:suppbook': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:commentary}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:commentary': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:commentary': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:incommentary}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:commentary': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:commentary': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:incollection}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:incollection': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:incollection': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:inlexicon}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:inlexicon': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:inlexicon': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:inreference}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:inreference': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:inreference': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:review}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:review': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:review': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:thesis}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:thesis': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:thesis': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:misc}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:misc': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:misc': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:conferencepaper}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:conferencepaper': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:conferencepaper': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:periodical}
  {\usebibmacro{editor+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{editor+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:periodical': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:periodical': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{cite:patent}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:patent': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `cite:patent': Failure^^J}}

% patch bibliography drivers
\xpatchbibdriver{ancienttext}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `ancienttext': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `ancienttext': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{article}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `article': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `article': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{book}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `book': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `book': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{suppbook}
  {\usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{author/editor+others/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `suppbook': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `suppbook': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{incommentary:short}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `incommentary:short': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `incommentary:short': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `incollection': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `incollection': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{inreference:short}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `inreference:short': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `inreference:short': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{review}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \newunit
   \iffieldundef{title}
     {\newunit}}
  {\usebibmacro{author/translator+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \iffieldundef{title}
     {}}
  {\message{Patching `review': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `review': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{thesis}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `thesis': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `thesis': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{misc}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `misc': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `misc': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{conferencepaper}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `conferencepaper': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `conferencepaper': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{periodical}
  {\usebibmacro{editor+others}%
   \newunit}
  {\usebibmacro{editor+others}%
   \setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}}
  {\message{Patching `periodical': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `periodical': Failure^^J}}
\xpatchbibdriver{patent}
  {\newunit
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\setunit{\printdelim{nametitledelim}}%
   \usebibmacro{title}}
  {\message{Patching `patent': Success^^J}}
  {\message{Patching `patent': Failure^^J}}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{Engelmann:2013,
  author      = {Engelmann, Hans and Bengelmann, Franz},
  title       = {Die Sicht},
  location    = {Berlin},
  publisher   = {De Gruyter},
  date        = {2013},
  series      = {Gamma Omega, I. Reihe: Alpha},
  shortseries = {GO.A},
  number      = {4},
}
@mvlexicon{TRE,
  editor     = {Schwertner, Siegried M.},
  title      = {Theologische Realenzyklopädie},
  shorttitle = {TRE},
  volumes    = {36},
  location   = {Berlin and New York},
  publisher  = {De Gruyter},
  date       = {1976/2004},
  shorthand  = {TRE}
}
@inlexicon{Poe:1994,
  author = {Poe, Edgar},
  title  = {Art. Dichtung},
  volume = {2},
  pages  = {9--343},
  xref   = {TRE}
}
@review{Well.19,
  author       = {Well, Jan},
  revdauthor   = {Ban, Peter},
  revdtitle    = {Select. Tomus I, Paris 1950},
  journaltitle = {Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen},
  shortjournal = {GGA},
  volume       = {18,2},
  keywords     = {sekundaer},
  date         = {1826},
  pages        = {14--18},
}
@article{Wink:2000,
  author       = {Wink, Gert},
  title        = {\mkbibquote{Mega}. Anmerkungen},
  shorttitle   = {\mkbibquote{Mega}},
  journaltitle = {Critica storia},
  shortjournal = {Cs},
  volume       = {34,1},
  date         = {2000},
  pages        = {9--24},
  sorttitle    = {Mega. Anmerkungen}
}
@article{Wink:2003,
  author       = {Wink, Gert},
  title        = {\mkbibquote{Mega II}. Anmerkungen},
  shorttitle   = {\mkbibquote{Mega II}},
  journaltitle = {Critica storia},
  shortjournal = {Cs},
  volume       = {41,4},
  date         = {2003},
  pages        = {11--22},
  sortitle     = {Mega II. Anmerkungen}
}
@incollection{peterson:1993,
  author     = {Peterson, David},
  title      = {The Motif of Fulfilment and the Purpose of Luke-Acts},
  shorttitle = {Motif of Fulfilment},
  pages      = {83-104},
  volume     = {1},
  maintitle  = {The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting},
  editor     = {Winter, Bruce W.},
  location   = {Grand Rapids},
  publisher  = {Eerdmans},
  date       = {1993},
}
@book{Pritchard:1969,
  editor    = {Pritchard, James B.},
  title     = {Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament},
  edition   = {3},
  location  = {Princeton},
  publisher = {Princeton University Press},
  date      = {1969},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\printbiblist{abbreviations}

Die Debatten.\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Poe:1994} und \cite{Wink:2000}.}
Dies gilt analog für die Gegner.\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Wink:2003}.} Die
beiden erwähnten\footnote{Siehe hierzu: \cite{Wink:2003}.} Bezeichnungen als
„besonders“\footnote{\cite[1]{Engelmann:2013}.} verstanden
werden.\footnote{\cite[Vgl.][1]{Engelmann:2013}. Siehe auch:
\cite{peterson:1993}, \cite{Pritchard:1969} und \cite{Well.19}.}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

MWE output

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  • I think there were some misunderstandings: I wanted only in the bibliography (here under the point 'Literatur") after the name a colon, e.g.: Well, Jan: Rezension von Select. Tomus I, Paris 1950, von Peter Ban. GGA 18,2 (1826): 14–18. In your MWE, all bibliographic entries has after the name of the author either a comma or a point - but in the footnotes, you set a colon. Can you set the colon for the bibliography entry (not in the footnote)? I am trying since hours, but nothing works and I have no idea how to handle with sbl.cbx
    – noname
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 16:11
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    @noname Oh... In your last question you said explicitly you did not want it for the bibliography. The drivers for the bibliography are in sbl.bbx. They need to all be patched too.
    – David Purton
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 21:14
  • yes, I know what I have said, but I changed my mind after receiving the hint that the point after the name in the bibliography is very vexing for German readers. I thought I have articulated it with the posting of this new question clear; it's my fault and please, excuse me!
    – noname
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 21:32
  • My suggested solution works for everything except "thesis" and "inlexicon"
    – noname
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 21:35
  • @noname. OK. I'll will do it later today.
    – David Purton
    Commented Aug 20, 2019 at 21:41

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