Tweaks to an existing style

skron · April 1, 2009

A style for The American Phytopathological Society was uploaded to the Zotero Styles repository by bdarcus on March 13th, 2009. It is listed as http://www.zotero.org/styles/apsa/dev .... First of all, thanks very much. I have reviewed the style and made changes to match our citation style as well as possible. How can I replace the file that is currently posted with the revised csl file that I have on my hard drive?

noksagt · April 1, 2009

How can I replace the file that is currently posted with the revised csl file that I have on my hard drive?

Refer to an earlier post in this thread:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6122/tweaks-to-an-existing-style/#Item_19

skron · April 3, 2009

I have an SVN/Trac account but can't for the life of me figure out how to upload the new style file.

noksagt · April 3, 2009

Have you used SVN before? In your SVN client, checkout:
https://www.zotero.org/svn/csl/
with the user/pass for your account. Replace the file, and then run svn commit.

skron · April 6, 2009

No, I have never used SVN and I don't have a SVN client ... any recommendation for a simple client?

Rintze · April 6, 2009

For Windows, TortoiseSVN:
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3808/wrong-german-citation-in-chicago-and-harvard-style/?Focus=16585#Comment_16585

dstillman · April 6, 2009

skron: You deleted american-phytopathological-society.csl from the repository, which I assume isn't what you intended to do.

Rintze · April 17, 2009

skron: I noticed you added the style again some time ago. I don't mean to be harsh (using SVN for the first time can be a bit tricky), but in the future, please validate your style (as it wasn't valid). The style furthermore belongs in the base csl directory instead of in the dependent folder (which is for dependent styles, which yours wasn't). Finally, just updating styles instead of deleting and adding them has the advantage that we can easily keep track of what is changed (e.g. https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/4344).

I did correct the first two issues by the way.

See also:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/creating_citation_styles#xml_validation
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/csl_syntax_summary#independent_and_dependent_styles