capitalize after non- part of title

lexwykes
I'm new to zotero but not xml and am trying to edit a Harvard csl style. I have no problem editing the style but the requirement I have is for the first letter of each word to be capitalized. This is fine with capitalize all, however it treats two words joined by a hyphen as one word. So instead of getting Non-Actor I get Non-actor. Is there anyway of getting this to work or does it have to be done manually?
  • adamsmith
    in general you probably want to use text-case="title" rather than "capitalize-all" - very few citation styles want you to capitalize articles and prepositions (and it's actually considered wrong in American English to do so).

    There is no way to get the second word in a hyphenated combination capitalized currently.
    I think there is a case for changing the default behavior in Zotero/CSLhere, given the instructions in CMoS (which we basically follow for title case):
    http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec159.html (gated).
    Let's see what fbennett et al say about that - I'm sure this has been discussed at some point...
  • adamsmith
    This (i.e. changing the second word in a hyphenated compound to start with uppercase for title case styles) is now implemented in the processor and will almost certainly be in Zotero 4.0.13. See this thread https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/32086/the-capitalized-after-colon-but-not-aan/#Item_26 for more
  • RintzeRintze
    Should we make a note to this effect in the spec when discussing title casing?
  • adamsmith
    yes, I would add this together with the link to the new skipword list.
  • RintzeRintze
    It wouldn't follow CMoS to the letter, but would it acceptable to specify that the parts of hyphenated words are treated as distinct words for the purpose of title casing?
  • adamsmith
    That seems like a good way to phrase this and make the mechanism the processor applies/should apply clear, yes.
  • RintzeRintze
    Remark on title casing of hyphenated words added to the spec, per https://github.com/rmzelle/documentation/commit/7554a6749390d123c7acb0d2ca71938fc6889cc4

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