Style error - or processor issue: chicago-author-date.csl

nickbart

With Zotero/LO and chicago-author-date.csl, a simple number in the edition field is rendered as, e.g., "7thed." (i.e., no space), for both books and book chapters.

By contrast, both when using Zotero/LO with chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl, and using Zotero/zotxt/pandoc with chicago-author-date.csl, the space is rendered as expected.

Interestingly, changing, in chicago-author-date.csl

<group delimiter=" " prefix=". ">
<number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
<text term="edition" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
</group>

to

<group prefix=". ">
<group delimiter=" ">
<number variable="edition" form="ordinal"/>
<text term="edition" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
</group>
</group>

(this being for books, similar change for chapters not shown) leads to the space being rendered by Zotero/LO as expected.

Now, the style could be fixed, at least as a stopgap solution, but since the original version does work with a different processor, is this possibly a citeproc-js issue?

adamsmith

Thanks -- that's very clearly a bug in citeproc-js. I'll see if Frank can get to fixing it -- we don't like putting workarounds for processor bugs into style code, so I'd like to avoid doing that, though thanks for pointing it out.

fbennett

This missing-delimiter bug has been addressed, in citeproc-js release 1.1.119.

For testing, and for projects requiring an immediate fix, install one of the Propachi plugins to run the revised processor in current Zotero. The plugin should be removed at the next Zotero update.

adamsmith

@fbennett -- could you check on the issue reported here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/62352/style-error-american-fisheries-society#latest

The elements are all in a group with a space delimiter, which doesn't get set. So it looks like there are some leftover delimiter issues?

fbennett

It's fixed, in tagged release 1.1.128 that just went up. I've updated the Propachi plugins, see how it goes.