Upgrade StorageArabic al- particle in footnotes
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i have a question regarding the Arabic al- particle in footnotes. The definite article (e.g., the Arabic al-) is lowercase everywhere, except when the first word of a sentence (IJMES guideline https://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/IJMES_Translation_and_Transliteration_Guide.htm)
Currently in the following example I would like in the above sentence the al- to be lowercase and not like it is at the moment capitalized since it appears in the middle of the footnote. The second al- should be capitalized as it is since it is at the beginning of the sentence.
See J. Mohammed al-Shubaiki, “Poverty Line Estimates ...
Al-Shubaiki, “Poverty Line ...
Can anybody offer some help how Zotero can automate this?
Thanks in advance!
Also, please provide a full example showing how you would like the authors to be formatted vs. how they are currently being formatted. Looking at what you've provided, I don't know exactly what is wrong.
That said, if special handling were required by the CSL specification, it could be implemented. @rintze, @adamsmith ?
@nora.derbal: if you start a new thread for your issue, we can just post a link here to tie the bits together.
i have a question regarding the Arabic al- particle in footnotes. I am following the IJMES guideline which says that the definite article (e.g., the Arabic al-) is lowercase everywhere, except when the first word of a sentence (IJMES guideline https://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/IJMES_Translation_and_Transliteration_Guide.htm).
Ideally for me I would type in the name of the author in the mask with a capital Al-, e.g. Al-Shubaiki and Zotero would recognize if it comes at the beginning of a footnote without first name before it (thus capitalized) or in the middle and thus lowercase (e.g. see Mohammed al-Shubaiki, ...). Currently it appears as "see Mohammed Al-Shubaiki, " with a capitalized Al- which is not how I want it.
Can anybody offer some help how Zotero can automate this?
Thanks in advance!
thanks
@Rintze , @adamsmith
thanks!