Titles ending in ? followed by a period
I am encountering the addition of a period at the end of a title that ends in a question mark. This was discussed in an earlier discussion (now closed), which suggests it had been resolved, but I have just encountered it. Here's the example:
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
The title is entered in Zotero as:
A book, the application, and the outcomes: how right was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the effects of the deregulation of the US domestic airline market?
Thank you.
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
The title is entered in Zotero as:
A book, the application, and the outcomes: how right was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the effects of the deregulation of the US domestic airline market?
Thank you.
Style: Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (note).
Testers: here is the data for the item.
This behavior was occurring before a recent update to the processor. @jongiff, do you happen to have the Processor Gadget or Uppercase Subtitles Gadgets installed? If so, what version?
I am not consciously using either the Processor Gadget or Uppercase Subtitles Gadget.
I'm using Firefox 35.0.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.10.2
One detail in the text data given by fbennett: I have used italics for the book title in the title field, which don't show in fbennett's test data. When I take that out of the title it works correctly. So I think putting that formatting in the article title field is causing the problem.
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/reference_test_pane
or only in Word/LibreOffice?
I am replicating the problem in the test pane, as follows:
- For CMoS 16th ed (author-date) the problem appears in the test pane as follows:
Individual Citations
(Button 2015)
Single Citation (with position "first")
(Button 2015)
Bibliography
Button, Kenneth J. 2015. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47 (1).
- For CMoS 16th ed (full note) the problem appears as follows (from the test pane):
Individual Citations
Kenneth J. Button, “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?,” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
Single Citation (with position "first")
Kenneth J. Button, “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?,” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
Bibliography
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
[NOTE THAT THE ITALICS AREN'T COPYING FROM THE TEST PANE BUT ARE THERE FOR THE BOOK TITLE AND THE JOURNAL TITLE.]
- For CMoS 1tth ed (note) the problem appears as follows (from the test pane):
Individual Citations
Button, “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.”
Single Citation (with position "first")
Button, “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.”
Bibliography
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
[AGAIN THE ITALICS ARE THERE BUT AREN'T COPYING]
Sorry for the extra trouble, but none of us seem to have been able to reproduce the failure so far.
Here is the gist address (I think):
https://gist.github.com/8028c254612b778d8360.git
Please advise if I have done this incorrectly.
Thanks.
The RDF for the item was broken in a bunch of ways (it looks like it was copy-pasted from a browser view of the RDF, which omits a bunch of stuff). I fixed it up, though, and imported the data, and again it renders with no period after the question mark. The corrected data is here. A screenshot of the item data is here. A screenshot of the rendered item is here.
There does not appear to be a problem in the processor. If you file a Debug ID, that will provide some details of your system to the Zotero developers that may offer a clue to the cause.
Thanks.
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Thanks.
Dan, what does it show for plugins? That's about all I can figure for a cause.
https://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_problems#provide_a_report_id
(though obviously the "report error" menu option can't be greyed out. If it is, just select some random text and click import from clipboard in Zotero. That'll give Zotero an error to log).
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Thanks.
Thanks.
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
general.useragent.locale
and tell us what its value is.
Thanks.
We can also take this from the other end, so to speak. I'll work up a test version of the Zotero client that reports out some details on the punctuation suppression steps. If we trace the steps it performs when succeeding on our machines, differences in the trace on yours may help us figure out where the difference lies.
There has to be a reason for the discrepancy.
I've posted to @jongiff privately with an offer of a debugging build of the latest Zotero. It will dump a trace of the input data, the punctuation tracing steps, and the output object. From that, I should be able to see (or intuit) what is going wrong at that end.
Button, Kenneth J. “A Book, the Application, and the Outcomes: How Right Was Alfred Kahn in The Economics of Regulation about the Effects of the Deregulation of the US Domestic Airline Market?.” History of Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2015).
I checked the style preview and the problem appears as follows in selected styles:
Am Anthro - ok
Am Medical - ok
Am Political Science - wrong
Am Sociological - wrong
APA 6th - ok
Cell - ok
CMoS 16 (author-date) - wrong
CMoS 16 (full note) - wrong
CMoS 16 (note) - wrong
Elsevier Harvard (with titles) - ok
Harvard Reference format 1 (author date)) - ok
IEEE - ok
MLA 7th - wrong
@fbennett if I should pick back up the thread with you I am happy to do so.
Thanks.