Triple Curly Braces around CAPAUTHOR in Bibtex Export

katyhuff

So, I have two zotero items authored by ANDRA. I export to bibtex they end up in the .bib export as "author = {{{ANDRA}}}".

The latter of the two renders in my compiled LaTeX document as ---------- where it should say ANDRA.

If I remove the third curly brace pair by hand, it renders fine... but I'd rather not have to do that.
Any thoughts on what's happening?

adamsmith

this a a confluence of several bracketing mechanisms in Zotero's bibtex export.
We're aware of this, and generally interested to change this, but it _is_ valid bibtex, so the failure of either biblatex or biber (I forgot which) to recognize it is a problem on their part, and on our side we need to tread with great care not to break something else here.

katyhuff

Hm. I see. Thanks for the swift response!

adamsmith

(there's a dedicated custom biblatex translator available somewhere on the forum - should be easy to find - you could try that out & see if the developer fixed that).

katyhuff

Is this what you mean? http://www.rtwilson.com/academic/autozotbib


(thanks)

adamsmith

no - I meant the one linked to 2nd post from the bottom here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15784/biblatex-export-translator/
you can use it together with autoZotBib, though (by using the instructions for using Robin's custom bibtex translator and switching out the translator ID numbers).

katyhuff

Well, it was worth a try. Installed fine, but It doesn't seem to have done the trick.
Thanks anyway.

adamsmith

you can post there - it's maintained separately, since this affects mainly LaTeX users s/he may be quicker to fix it that the general bibtex translator which needs to be stable across a lot of different settings.

katyhuff

The answer to this, for interested readers, is that this is mostly not zotero's fault. In the natbib chicago style, the second identical author is listed as ------- . The seemingly unpredictable/inconsistent behavior, in which sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't, occurs if there's a difference in the number of curly braces. That's why I was seeing different behavior under different perturbations of curly braces.

So, my fault.