Chicago: Through not recognised as preposition

penelepeia · November 26, 2012

It seems to me that when zotero switched to automatic recognition of prepositions and started to automatically present them in lowercase, the preposition 'through' is not recognized. My Zotero cites this with a capital letter. Is this bug known? Where can I report it? Bug report that I saw on the website seems to deal only with technical matters.

Gracile · November 26, 2012

Yes, "through" is not in the list: http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#title-case-conversion
I don't know if it's an oversight or a real choice. Others will have to comment.

Anyway, that's ok to report this here.

fbennett · November 26, 2012

Can add it if there are no objections ... will wait awhile for comments. Feel free to bump this thread if there is no activity for a week or so.

penelepeia · November 26, 2012

Chicago advises that all prepositions, regardless of length, are lowercased. I found this wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_prepositions

So there are way more than just 'through' that is missing. And they are actually quite complicated as well. So maybe it's even too complicated to do this automatically. I was fine when I had to think of the prepositions myself.

Rintze · December 5, 2012

Also see https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/issues/106