Upgrade Storageen-dashes appear as hyphens
Hi there,
hopefully someone can help me with this issue: When I type a en-dash in the title box of a book or a paper in Zotero, it appears as a hyphen in the actual citation in my word document. (I am using the German language, so there has to be an en-dash, anything else is just wrong.)
Is there any way of forcing Zotero to keep this en-dash instead of changing it into a minus sign?
Like a workaround character?
Or do I have to change it in the locale? My citation style has default-locale="de-DE".
If yes, how does this work, how do I change&save a locale?
Many thanks in advance!
Oriana
hopefully someone can help me with this issue: When I type a en-dash in the title box of a book or a paper in Zotero, it appears as a hyphen in the actual citation in my word document. (I am using the German language, so there has to be an en-dash, anything else is just wrong.)
Is there any way of forcing Zotero to keep this en-dash instead of changing it into a minus sign?
Like a workaround character?
Or do I have to change it in the locale? My citation style has default-locale="de-DE".
If yes, how does this work, how do I change&save a locale?
Many thanks in advance!
Oriana
– or –and give that a try. (there might be another way and I'm sure the others will chime in in that case)Same for &ndsash;.
It doesn't seem to recognize html? adding ‹html›,</html› just prints this as well.
What style are you using? And could you export the affected item to CSL-JSON, paste the exported item metadata code to https://hastebin.com or similar, and give a link here?
I realize now that the problem probably isn't the style, but rather the entry field in the Zotero app.
In word, I use (on Mac) "Option -" to write a dash. In the Zotero text entry field there is no difference when I type "Option -" or just "-".
How can I type a dash in the Zotero entry field?
CopyPaste does not work.
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You asked for the metadata:
This is an example of a json export. You can see that in the title there are "–", but in my word file these appear as short hyphens and not as dashes.
[
{
"id": ".........................................",
"type": "book",
"event-place": "Bielefeld",
"note": "GH 6111",
"publisher-place": "Bielefeld",
"title": "Einleitung – Fußnote - Kommentar. Fingierte Formen wissenschaftlicher Darstellung als Gestaltungselemente moderner Erzählkunst",
"author": [
{
"family": "Stang",
"given": "Harald"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
"1992"
]
]
}
}
]
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I am using a style which is a variation of https://editor.citationstyles.org/styleInfo/?styleId=http://www.zotero.org/styles/nccr-mediality
I am wondering if I should add the dash to the German locale, but how exactly would I need to do it?
Not exactly in a nice way, but it works:
If I don't use the Zotero app but the Web Library and I type "Option -" it actually produces a dash, also in the Word file.
I thus have to change all affected objects in the Web version of Zotero.
@bwiernik: it should :), but it doesn't.