no "space character" into the some references

juancamax
Hi:
I use Zotero Standalone and I'm very happy.
I have a little problem with some references: almost always the references are well written by Zotero, but somtimes the reference not included a "space character" between the title book and the year of the edition.
For example:
Curso de teoría I2006, 281, instead of
Curso de teoría I 2006, 281

¿Someone can tell me how to fix that?
  • fbennett
    Which style?
  • juancamax
    edited April 8, 2015
    Scripta, it's a style of my University... I don't know who did it.

    This is the file link of the style.
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxZ16N2WhhoGYWdTU3ZmYkNBUEk/view?usp=sharing

    I don't know how to modify. Thanks for your help.
  • fbennett
    (1) I can't produce that output with Book or Book Section items, but it seems to be an issue with Manuscript and Report items. Can you confirm that that is where you are seeing the fault?

    (2) There seem to be a few other formatting issues. It is using guillmets for quotes, but placing punctuation inside the quotes, which looks a little weird to me - is that a requirement of the style?

    (3) It is also showing a comma-space on Book and Book Section items when there is no edition, publisher, or publication place.

    If you can provide guidance on (1) and (2), I can help you fix up (1)-(3).
  • fbennett
    Also, could you confirm the target language of the style? (I'm puzzled by the replacement of "and" with "y" for the English locale only.)
  • DWL-SDCA
    This might be related to a problem I often have with BioMed Central abstracts directly or via PubMed. Their metadata does something strange with non- breaking spaces. The result is no space at all. This problem sometimes happens with titles and abstracts when displayed as html on the BMC website. The provisional and final pdf versions have correct spacing. I find this with other sources but with BMC metadata it is commonplace.
  • fbennett
    edited April 11, 2015
    In this case, it seems to be due to flaws in the style code - unless juancamax identifies failures in book type references.
  • fbennett
    @juancamax: Haven't heard anything back from you, but here is the style with some fixes:

    https://gist.github.com/fbennett/2f9caa5097c68dae1355

    The style has many small macros that are joined by adding punctuation conditionally to the affixes of individual elements (that is, sometimes adding it, sometimes not). This is a very fragile coding pattern, and you will almost certainly come across other small issues.

    If there is significant use of the style in your institution, it might make sense to arrange for the style to be recoded from scratch in a more maintainable form (i.e. with joining punctuation placed in delimiters rather than in affixes).
  • juancamax
    Thank's for all.
    I needed to fix manually to print my thesis, but another time thank you for your time and your piece of advice.
    I will try to recode the style.

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