Trouble with BibTeX exporter

bdhamilton
I'm having some trouble with the BiBTeX exporter. I'm inexperienced with BiBTeX and with the backend of Zotero, so this could very well all be in my mind.

First is that dates than include months are just imported as "jan", "feb", etc., and end up showing up that way in my final documents, too. It seems like they should get getting exported in a way that's more localizable, so the CSL can tell it what form to show up in (January, Jan., Jan, 1, etc). Isn't that possible?

Second is that markup within Zotero (e.g., a set of <i> brackets within a title) are getting translated literally rather than transformed into LaTeX, which is what it seems would be ideal.

Any fixes for these? The second seems more complicated than the first, but I really don't know.
  • noksagt
    First is that dates than include months are just imported as "jan", "feb", etc.
    This is done according to the standard. I don't think Zotero should change away from this. You'll need to either edit your BST file or choose to modify the BibTeX file manually to meet something that is less standard.
  • bdhamilton
    Oh, interesting. Then I guess it's up to the CSL file to change that into the form required by the style, and the Chicago variations aren't doing that currently.
  • noksagt
    edited May 29, 2012
    CSL and BibTeX are currently in two separate toolchains. Do you mean BST files?


    beebe/chicagoa.bst and chicago.bst and chicago-annote.bst and frankenstein/achicago.bst all seem to have month macro expansion.
  • bdhamilton
    I obviously don't have too good a grasp on how all this fits together. I'm pretty sure I do mean CSL, since I'm using pandoc to turn my markdown source into pdfs, and pandoc uses citeproc and CSL, drawing from my BibTeX file, to create bibliographies. From what I was told on the pandoc listserve, pandoc's responsiveness to formatting commands within the CSL file is still spotty, so maybe the problem is on their end rather than within the CSL file?
  • noksagt
    Ah. You had mentioned LaTeX, so I assumed that was what you were working with. If you're using pandoc, you might try using MODS XML export. It is a richer, more modern format & citeproc-hs (used by pandoc) has native support for it (rather than using an external program to change bibtex into something it supports).
  • bdhamilton
    Could you explain how I use that in conjunction with pandoc?
  • noksagt
    I don't understand the question (and that is better suited for the people who support pandoc anyway).pandoc --bibliography=biblio.mods input.txtshould work (and should be almost identical to the way you're invoking pandoc to use BibTeX now).

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