Making style language independent?

lockesilver
Is it possible to make a Zotero style not use the language of a word processor/document/operating system at all?

More specifically I mean I would like the word 'and' as in "author AND author" to be hard-coded into the style and not change to e.g. 'und' in German or 'y' in Spanish etc.
  • adamsmith
    the answer is most likely yes, but it depends on what exactly you're trying to achieve.
    This might be all you need:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/hidden_prefs#export_and_citation_settings
    if you need something more precise ore targeted, there are probably ways, too, but those might be more involved.
  • lockesilver
    Thank you for the quick answer!

    I am already aware of this way though and what I am looking for is a way to get
    this fixed in the CSL file.

    Any working (and perhaps more involved) way to do that?

    Cheers,
  • adamsmith
    CSL 1.0 might have a more concise answer.
    For the current csl the only thing I can think of is to hard-code all the terms in all relevant languages at the beginning of the style.
    That would be a bit of a mess, but probably possible.
    It would probably help if you could describe what exactly you need this for.
  • lockesilver
    All right:

    I want it to always be in English. Unless I'm mistaken there should be a place in the stylesheet (or in Zotero code?) where the word AND in a given language is insterted into the bibliography. I would like to, as it were, change this instruction from 'take the word "and" from the language file and put it here' to 'just put the string "and" here'.

    What I need it for is making the use of the style as easy as possible. Believe it or not but for some people making the simple change in the settings of Firefox is a real complication and I'm sometimes having a hard time trying to explain this ("yeah I'm putting this about:config in google and nothing happens, duh!"). There's more to it but I don't think the whole story behind my motives it that relevant.

    Good thing there are some savvy people in here. Do you think what I'm trying to do is at all possible?
  • RintzeRintze
    This will be possible when Zotero switches to CSL 1.0:
    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/upgrade-notes.html#default-locale
  • adamsmith
    for the current csl it depends on what type of users you are dealing with - if they all are on one or two different language settings, this may be possible. Otherwise it isn't.
    But if you're not in a hurry, probably best to wait for csl 1.0, which will be implemented in Zotero sometime this year.
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