Remove 'Title' from Letter footnote in MHRA Style

AhrenLester

Hi,

I am trying to tidy up my letters in my database by including a title explaining its content (briefly) to make it easier to search. However, currently if I do the title is included in the footnote when I use the letter.

How can I edit the csl file so that the title no longer appears in the footnote when used in a document?

In other words, it looks like this:

Charles Darwin to Henry Walter Bates, ‘Letter Anxiously Regarding Wallace Memorial’, circa 1880. Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts, 12951.

When I want it to be like this:

Charles Darwin to Henry Walter Bates, circa 1880. Robert M. Stecher Collection of Charles Darwin Books and Manuscripts, 12951.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Gracile

Depends on the style.
If there's a specific conditional statement for letter (i.e. if type="letter"), just remove the "title" macro/variable inside.
If there's no specific conditional statement for letter, you've to create it without calling the "title" macro/variable.

AhrenLester

Thanks for the help, @Gracile.

This is what I have: http://imgur.com/VdpC2

So would I have to include an 'Else-if' condition in this part of the csl file with 'letter' and do so without a title macro/variable? Is that correct?

Gracile

The logic is a bit different from what I thought in this style but,
yes, add an empty 'else-if' condition in the macro 'title-note' (and in 'title-short' too).

And I made a mistake in my previous post, CSL has 'personal-communication' for Zotero's letter, i.e:
<else-if type="personal_communication">
</else-if>

AhrenLester

Superb, thanks @Gracile.

I will have a tinker with it and see whether it works. I don't see how it couldn't!