Sentence case titles by default

warwickmm

The conversion of titles to sentence case (right-click on title -> Sentence Case) seems to be much improved compared to a year or two ago. Is there a reason why this sentence casing isn't applied automatically when adding a new item (either via the connector or the magic wand)?

adamsmith

yeah, because it requires manual check for proper nouns.

warwickmm

I see, thanks. I was thinking that if the recommendation is to store things in sentence case, then a typical workflow would be to

1. Add an entry.
2. Right-click -> Sentence Case.
3. Fix capitalizations.

and that Step 2 could be automated. But I can see that some people might not want that.

northword

> that Step 2 could be automated

The Linter plugin (https://github.com/northword/zotero-format-metadata) now provides this capability.

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Or you can use Actions & Tags to implement it.