Inverted commas next to HTML tags

jack.orford

Is there a way to make Zotero use the appropriate (unsymmetrical) inverted commas when the commas are outside, for example, <i> tags?

I am trying to use:

('<i>Blah</i>')

which causes the first inverted comma to be the wrong way around (not enclosing the text). Only solution I have found is to copy/paste the correct inverted comma. &# 8216; doesn't work (and probably isn't a good solution anyway). I don't want the inverted commas italicised.

adamsmith

could you step back a bit? I'm not following the context of the question - where are you trying to do this? In a citation style or in the title of an item?
Also, the forum understands utf-8, so could you provide an example of what this should look and what it does look like?

fbennett

I've done some experiments, and as far as I can tell the leading quote comes out reversed only when the example text is generated as follows:

1. The italics, quotes and parens are all contained in the field (not provided by the style); and


2. Straight (typewriter-style) single-quotes are used.

Straight single quotes in field content are tricky to interpret, because they can also indicate an apostrophe. We handle some of the more common edge cases, but extending the rescue logic further is probably not a good idea, since other CSL-enabled systems (such as the Papers reference manager or the pandoc document processing system) might behave differently.

The simple solution is to use double-quotes instead. The processor will convert these to single quotes when generating citations (if appropriate), and they will come out correctly as "open-quote" and "close-quote".