Upgrade StorageWorkaround for classic sources
In CMOS for classical authors, the proper format for footnotes is as follows:
First footnote: Augustine, De civitate Dei, trans. Jane Doe (Tan, 2005), 3.4.5.
Subsequent footnotes: Augustine, De civitate Dei 3.4.5.
Zotero gets the first footnote correct if the locator (3.4.5) is entered as the page number. But the subsequent footnotes are incorrect, because CMOS doesn't want a comma between the work title and the locator. Adding the locator as a suffix (" 3.4.5") doesn't help, because then the first footnote is missing a comma.
But I suspect this wouldn't be too hard to implement in a new release: simply adding a new locator option (e.g, "classical") which handles this. (And perhaps it could also convert hypens to en-dashes, such as "3.4-6" to "3.4–6".) Does that sound right?
I think this would go along way toward making Zotero effective for classics scholars; and seems much simpler than proceeding as here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/79604/classical-sources
First footnote: Augustine, De civitate Dei, trans. Jane Doe (Tan, 2005), 3.4.5.
Subsequent footnotes: Augustine, De civitate Dei 3.4.5.
Zotero gets the first footnote correct if the locator (3.4.5) is entered as the page number. But the subsequent footnotes are incorrect, because CMOS doesn't want a comma between the work title and the locator. Adding the locator as a suffix (" 3.4.5") doesn't help, because then the first footnote is missing a comma.
But I suspect this wouldn't be too hard to implement in a new release: simply adding a new locator option (e.g, "classical") which handles this. (And perhaps it could also convert hypens to en-dashes, such as "3.4-6" to "3.4–6".) Does that sound right?
I think this would go along way toward making Zotero effective for classics scholars; and seems much simpler than proceeding as here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/79604/classical-sources
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dunningYou're looking for the 'classic' item type in CSL. Zotero does not yet support it, but you can still create an item (a book will give you the most helpful fields) and override the type by adding to the Extra field: The Chicago style files do not yet include the specifications for classical sources in CMOS 14.142–152, but this is something that I need myself, and I hope to find the time to implement it within the next month or so.