how to localize "and" & "et al." in author list to my language?

wingkei_w

I am now developing a citation style for Chinese, by modifying Chicago style to my specific style with Chinese character in the format. However, I discover a problem that I am not able to localize the following,
1. when the number of author/editor is 2 or more, the author/editor list in bibliography will show as, "author1, author2, and author3". In which, I would like to replace the string "and" with a Chinese word (equivalent meaning in Chinese). However, I cannot define this "and" string.
2. similarly, when the number of author/editor is more than a number, says 4, it will truncate the list as, "author1, et al.", in which the string "et al." seems to be hardcoded as well that I am not able to replace this with another equivalent Chinese string.

Does anyone have the solution of the above?

adamsmith

you can define them in the term section of the style

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary#terms
the terms are called
"and" and "et-al"
If that's not clear, first search the forum a bit, then feel free to ask here for clarification.

Also, I believe they should automatically localize if you use Chinese Firefox.

wingkei_w

Thanks for your reply. However, my situation is not that easy. In most of the cases, I will have both English books and Chinese books in my bibliography. For English books, I would like to have the term "and" & "et-al" shown as "and" and "et al." respectively, but for Chinese books, I prefer these terms to be shown in Chinese characters. So far, zotero is not able to support such features, right? Do you have any tentative workaround?

adamsmith

sorry, I have nothing for you. While people are aware of this as an issue, I really don't know if there is going to be a solution in any foreseeable future - there just doesn't seem to be a decent way of handling something like this.