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I have a citation, which should only have a closing bracket (the other half if the bracket content is outside of the citation. Zotero changes the bracket from ) to ]. Why? Is this something in the style I can fix? I am using my own style.
To preempt the obvious question: I can't have the complete bracket inside of the Zotero prefix, because then it will capitalise the ibid (in my case "Ebenda") after "vgl.". Or can this be stopped from happening?
To preempt the obvious question: I can't have the complete bracket inside of the Zotero prefix, because then it will capitalise the ibid (in my case "Ebenda") after "vgl.". Or can this be stopped from happening?
Here is what I get:
Die Portamenti finden sich auch nicht, wie Milsom irrtümlich schreibt, in den Takten 7, 10 und 18, sondern in den Takten 10, 14, 17 und 18 (in Takt 14 und 18 jeweils zwei Portamenti), vgl. ebenda, S. 99 bzw. 101. Ein weiteres, kaum zu hörendes „Schieben des Fingers“ befindet sich im ersten Takt (von Milsom im Notenbeispiel auch vermerkt vgl. Ebenda, S. 236).
Zotero fields are underlined. In the second field the "Ebenda" gets capped, which it shouldn't be.
If I take the beginning of the bracket out of the Zotero prefix, I get a ] at the end.
If I take the closing bracket out the period will come before the bracket, that's no better.
Is there a way to stop it from capitalising after a period? It seems to decide itself what is an abbreviation and what is a full stop, which personally I find a little too much intelligence. There should at least be a way to avoid this from happening. As you can see with the first field it does not capitalise after the period.
I can think of a different way to word the footnote to avoid this, or just take "vgl." out completely, but I dislike the way this dictates me my style.
Why is this capitalisation done in the first place? I cannot think of many situations where this would be needed.
Based on demand -- and as you can see, there's really no good way to satisfy every demand here.
I don't know how it tries to guess abbreviations, though. I think there is a thread on the logic somewhere.
Whenever there is some logic that tries to "guess" content, the automatism will eventuell get in the way. Unless there is a way to "know", Zotero should not make such a decision, or at least provide a work around. I tried a hard space, but no change.
Anyway, my original question was about the ] instead of ) if there is no ( preceding it. I can see absolutely no logic here...
Not sure what's going on with the parentheses. The code is designed to handle nested parentheses, which are clearly not at play here. @fbennett will need to take a look, but realistically this won't happen super quickly, so you should find a workaround whether that's rephrasing or manually editing (I'd do the latter)
Perhaps one for the tipps and tricks?
BTW I looked at past discussions of this and it seems that the opinion by users is overwhelmingly against this particular capitalisation, while the developers disagree. Go figure. It has to do with the fact that developers would prefer one to use the prefix field to make the whole footnote a Zotero field, which in reality doesn't work well so one doesn't.