Testing for presence of journal abbreviation?

FHeimburger

I think I am probably missing something really obvious...

I am trying to code a style for a French editor who wants journal titles in italics (easy), BUT
- a prefix "dans" if the full title of the journal is used
- no prefix if an abbreviation is used

I can output the journal abbreviation the way I need it with <text variable="container-title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>

but how do I go about testing whether there is an abbreviation in the Zotero data?

Journal abbreviations don't have CSL field names if I understand this document correctly http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/csl-fields/journalArticle.html and this doesn't work either:
<if variable="container-title" form="short" match="any">

How is it done?

adamsmith

you're not missing anything, this isn't possible. A usage case like yours has never come up afaik.

fbennett

CSL 1.0.1 will include a "title-short" variable. We should maybe consider "container-title-short" as well.

FHeimburger

thanks, adamsmith, at least I can stop hunting.

fbennett: if that can be added without too much difficulty it would solve my minor problem and might be useful for other style use cases.

Rintze

I'll try to get "container-title-short" into CSL 1.0.1 : https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/2#issuecomment-2354532