Italicize a prefix

HZTB

Hello,

I'm tweaking a CSL style for zotero more or less successfully, but there's one thing that I can't get to work. I need the prefix "in" when citing a chapter from an edited book to be in italics. In the style I'm changing, this is the only part where "in" occurs:

<else-if type="chapter entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia" match="any">
<group>
<group suffix=", ">
<text variable="title" text-case="capitalize-first" quotes="true"/>
</group>
<text macro="editor" prefix=" in " suffix=", "/>
<text variable="container-title" text-case="capitalize-first" font-style="italic"/>
</group>
</else-if>

I tried adding font style="italic" somewhere in there but it doesn't work (I don't know anything about CSL).

Thank you for your help.

fbennett

You can't style strings set in the affix attributes. You can add it as a localized term, like this:
<text term="in"/>

adamsmith

so in this case that'd be something like
<group delimiter=" ">
<text term="in" font-style="italic"/>
<text macro="editor"/>
</group>

HZTB

I had trouble at first placing your bit of code but I managed to make it work in the end. Thank you both!

For future reference, this is what I ended up with:

<else-if type="chapter entry-dictionary entry-encyclopedia" match="any">
<group>
<group suffix=", ">
<text variable="title" text-case="capitalize-first" quotes="true"/>
</group>
<group delimiter=" ">
<text term="in" font-style="italic"/>
<text macro="editor" suffix=", "/>
</group>
<text suffix=", "/>
<text variable="container-title" text-case="capitalize-first" font-style="italic"/>
</group>
</else-if>

It's probably not kosher but it works.

bwiernik

That's definitely the right way to do it.