capitalisation after the hyphen in work title

uygaraydemir

Dear Zotero community,

I would like to mention a problem I encounter when I use zotero citations on MS Word. When I refer to a book title, such as "sicill-i osmani", the option is either to make it sentence-style: "Sicill-i osmani", or the title-style (which I prefer): "Sicill-I Osmani". Here is the problem, in the field I study, the letter after the hyphen should never be capitalised. So, the correct citation should be "Sicill-i Osmani" (because "i" is not a separate word but only a case). What can I do to make zotero not capitalise -exclusively- after a hyphen?

adamsmith

you can't easily. Problem is that hyphenated words (think "Well-Meaning Spectators") should typically be capitalized in title case.
Your only current option is to enclose letter or words you don't want to see capitalized with <span class="nocase">word</span> in Zotero.
Quite ugly, obviously, but it'll at least work.

uygaraydemir

Thank you for your answer. I have tried it and it works. No matter how -as you have put it- "ugly" it is, it will save me a great amount of work. Otherwise, I had to go through them all one by one (in the footnotes as well as in the bibliography) after my work was done; and even then, it would be problematic for future citation changes in the document since my changes involved intervention in a zotero cell. So, thank you very much; this was keeping my mind busy for some time.

uygaraydemir

"propachi-upper" plugin seems to solve this problem, as long as there comes only one letter after dash, AND there is another word after the dashed word.

https://github.com/Juris-M

For instance, with the plug-in installed on zotero standalone version, the imaginary titles below appear on the word references as how I write them here:
Sicill-u Turki
Sicill-Ut Turki
Sicill-U

adamsmith

That's on purpose and how capitalization is supposed to work in English (not 100% sure on the last one, but it's a borderline case). If you want to disable title casing for an item (as you typically would for non-English item) populate the language field of the item, in your case with "tr" (without the quotes) for Turkish. That way, citation styles won't change the capitalization at all.

uygaraydemir

Thank you very much. Actually, I have no problem with how the plug-in works currently. If there is one letter after the dash, it is normally a case, and should be written in small letter; and if it is more than one letter, it is a word, and should start with a capital. And the third scenario is indeed a borderline case; I have not encountered such a title yet. So, currently it fits my work perfectly. I wanted to note it down here, so if someone else has the same problem, they can solve it accordingly.

And thanks for the language field tip, I did not know about it, and I am sure I will use it at times.