Thanks for posting this; it's exactly the problem I logged on to find out about.

If I go back and do one of these options now, in the middle of redoing all my book citations, will all the foreign language titles automatically re-capitalize themselves properly when I hit refresh?

Thanks!

If you add a language code in the Language field, it should take effect in existing footnotes when you click refresh.

It shouldn't make a difference, but lowercase (it) is good for Italian, (fr) is good for French. In fact, any two-character string other than "en" should do the trick, but there may be benefits to telling the truth going forward, as more language-sensitive systems and features emerge. (Just enter the characters in the Language field by typing; there isn't a pull-down list or anything yet.)

If you find that some entries get stuck, you can try switching away to another style and then back. That will regenerate all of the citations (except for those that have been hand-edited and so suspended in their existing form).

Good luck, hope it goes smoothly. Give a shout if you run into difficulties.

Let me add that pretty much all my footnotes are going to be hand-edited, many extensively.

No worries, we're on your side here. Be sure to set aside interim copies of the manuscript somewhere as you go along; that will give you the security of quick recovery in case things get into a twist.

Hello, it's not working again. I made sure the right language code was in the library entry, and I have tried editing the footnote, deleting and reinserting it, and hitting refresh. It still capitalized automatically.
Then I tried switching styles, as you recommended, but a) I'd like to be able to switch styles one note at a time for these purposes, and b) when I tried to switch back I got an error message and then Word crashed.

How do I disable capitalization in the style? And do you have other tips for me?
Thanks.

No, I'm wrong, some titles capitalize, some don't, all in the same foreign language with the same code.

Okay, these sound like small teething troubles. I'll send you a message via zotero.org, which should come through in your mail. Send back your mail address and I'll help sort through the details. I can supply you with a copy of the style that does not apply text-case, if that will help.

Pending that, let us know what style you are using (it will help me work through the possible causes of the symptoms you describe); and it sounds like the document did come up okay in your target style after the Word crash, but please confirm that.

Mail sent. Which style are you using? (Specifically, is it MHRA or MLA?)

Click on the "Inbox" link on zotero.org, it should be there. If not, I'll just post the address here.

If titles are capitalizing automatically with Chicago Fullnote with Bibliography, you must have an older version of the style installed; the current version in the Zotero repository does not apply "title case" to titles. To update the style, visit the repository, search for "Chicago" and click on the [install] link next to the "Chicago Manual of Style (full note)" listing.

I don't know. Could it have dropped out during the refactoring?

OK, in any case the version of Chicago I have been using does capitalize. Until I put in the language codes, it capitalized all my Italian and French titles wrongly. This leads me to a new problem. I am going back over all the (few-hundred) wrongly capitalized notes now to fix them. Many of them have been hand-modified or edited. Some have not. On those that have been, I am fixing them by hand. On those that have not been edited, I should be able to use the "edit citation" function and fix just that one footnote. But sometimes when I do this, zotero starts to run through the entire document, redoing every footnote, rather than just fixing the one I am on.