Ed. vs Eds

caspar.trimmer · October 11, 2018

I'd like our style to put a period after "ed" (if only one editor) but no period after "eds" (more than one editor).
Any tips?

adamsmith · October 11, 2018

You need to redefine the terms. See
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/harvard-cite-them-right.csl#L22
for an example.

caspar.trimmer · October 11, 2018

Hi
Wow! That was powerful stuff. I need to learn more about terms.
But it did the job. Thanks a lot.

bwiernik · October 11, 2018

Terms are an awesome part of CSL. Definitely worth practicing using them instead of hard-coded text as you write styles: https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html#appendix-ii-terms

caspar.trimmer · October 17, 2018

Great! Now trying to put a space after p. and pp. using terms. Let's see if that works.

damnation · October 17, 2018

@caspar.trimmer

Not sure what you're doining, but adding a space after p./pp. via terms doesn't sound like the best way.
We generally solve that with a delimiter between the label and the variable in a group. Example below. This would render as "pp. 307-345".


                  <group delimiter=" ">
                    <label variable="page" form="short"/>
                    <text variable="page"/>
                  </group>

caspar.trimmer · October 17, 2018

Thanks for the tip. FYI it didn't work with terms. Although I set it to "p. " it came out as "p ."