Styles question: editing existing style

meirpdx
Greetings. I have spent some time on the Zotero site trying to figure out how to edit the standard Chicago full notes style in a number of ways (e.g. suppress publication place). I managed to access the style and copy it into a text editor, but I still can't figure out how to find the specific place in the code that will enable me to make the changes I want.

Also, Zotero is capitalizing the titles of books in footnotes (i.e. every single word). I would like it to keep the format the way it is in the title field. I know there is a toggle for this, which I have tried to switch off, but it keeps capitalizing.

Thanks.
  • adamsmith
    The visual editor at
    http://editor.citationstyles.org/visualEditor/
    can actually help you identify where to find certain parts of the code in the citation style: you can click on them in the citation on the right and the respective node of the code tree will open on the left.
    Also, Zotero is capitalizing the titles of books in footnotes (i.e. every single word). I would like it to keep the format the way it is in the title field. I know there is a toggle for this, which I have tried to switch off, but it keeps capitalizing.
    it's text-case="title" and you want to delete it (in the visual editor set it to empty).
  • zuphilip
    Here is a documentation for starting with CSL: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step
  • meirpdx
    Thank you for your help with styles a few months ago. Unfortunately I am still having a hard time with CSL editing. The new case I am dealing with is a style called Irish Historical Studies, which I found after a lot of searching and thought was perfect for the style I needed. The only problem is that it uses "pp." for page ranges, and I would like to show only the page ranges without any abbreviation for "page" or "pages." Could you help direct me to how I make that change in in the CSL editor? Thanks.
  • zuphilip
    Goto the macro title "pages" and delete the first note (label), or in code

    <macro name="pages">
    <!-- <label variable="page" form="short"/> -->
    <text variable="page" prefix=" "/>
    </macro>

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