√ [MLZ] First letter of "stop words" capitalized with text-case="title"

wonblee
First letters of "stop words" are capitalized with text-case="title". Was m-CSL designed to do so? Is it possible to have the "stop words" lowercased? (e.g., "a", "an", "and", "as", "at", "but", "by", "down", "for", "from", "in", "into", "nor", "of", "on", "onto", "or", "over", "so", "the", "till", "to", "up", "via", "with", and "yet")
  • wonblee
    From the following threads, it looks like this was a known issue and was addressed. But with the latest MLZ, the stop words are still capitalized in mid-sentence (notwithstanding the new patch-plugin that Prof. Bennett provided in the first thread). I surmise that the new CSL process is implemented in Zotero but not in MLZ yet?

    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/32086/
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/30484/uncapitalizing-prepositions/
  • fbennett
    The stop-words don't capitalize in MLZ Chicago Full Note for me here, in MLZ latest (1.0.14m430). If you paste a copy of your style, and of the code for an exported item that exhibits the problem, to http://gist.github.com, and paste the URL(s) back here, I can take a look.
  • wonblee
    Well, I'm using MLZ American Law, and it capitalizes the stop-words in container-title for all items. (But you're right, MLZ Chicago Full Note doesn't capitalize stop-words.)
  • fbennett
    Ah, okay. Sorry for this glitch.

    The journal name is not affected -- it's rendered as-is, but in small-caps, which is correct.

    You're quite right, though, that the stop-list was completely broken across MLZ American Law wherever text-case="title" was applied. It's just been fixed, so if you reinstall the style you should be in good shape.

    The processor (in CSL-m mode) can read a style-specific list of stop-words from the style locale, and a list is set in the AmLaw style. It was space-delimited, though, and in a recent revision, I configured the processor to expect a comma-delimited list -- so it was seeing the entire list as a single word. It's now comma-delimited.

    If you come across any words that still capitalise when they ought not to, let me know and I'll add them to the list.
  • wonblee
    Thanks. I'll download it and give it a try. Actually I should have said "title", not "container-title", that gets its stop words capitalized.

    In any event, I'll report back. Thanks.
  • wonblee
    It works! Thanks.
  • wonblee
    edited December 17, 2013
    If you come across any words that still capitalise when they ought not to, let me know and I'll add them to the list.
    "vs"
  • fbennett
    Done.
  • wonblee
    Should "up" and "down" be skip words? I see them usually capitalized in article titles.
  • fbennett
    There was some doubt about these recently, when the main CSL list of skip-words was under discussion. For the AmLaw style, let's follow your intuition, and see if anyone complains. Duly removed.
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