Spaces with full stops and commas in footnotes
Hello,
After a recent update to Zotero I noticed issues with full stop and comma spacing in footnotes.
If I have a complicated footnote where I discuss several issues I prefer to separate them with a full stop, which I place in the suffix of the preceding entry. This worked fine before, but after an update it omits the full stop entirely and just leaves a space there.
I noticed a similar issue recently, where if I put a comma, space, then something in quotes in the suffix for an entry it will omit the space between the comma and quotation mark. This is very important for me to include quotations and short titles.
Here are screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/7qG2s
I'm using Word 2011 on a Mac and MHRA reference style.
I was wondering if anybody might be able to offer any advice? I'd prefer not having to roll back my software here, but I really need to have this sort of functionality, otherwise I might as well just enter everything manually.
Thanks!
After a recent update to Zotero I noticed issues with full stop and comma spacing in footnotes.
If I have a complicated footnote where I discuss several issues I prefer to separate them with a full stop, which I place in the suffix of the preceding entry. This worked fine before, but after an update it omits the full stop entirely and just leaves a space there.
I noticed a similar issue recently, where if I put a comma, space, then something in quotes in the suffix for an entry it will omit the space between the comma and quotation mark. This is very important for me to include quotations and short titles.
Here are screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/7qG2s
I'm using Word 2011 on a Mac and MHRA reference style.
I was wondering if anybody might be able to offer any advice? I'd prefer not having to roll back my software here, but I really need to have this sort of functionality, otherwise I might as well just enter everything manually.
Thanks!
Does the problem persist if you install the Propachi plugin (https://github.com/Juris-M/propachi-upper/releases/) in Zotero?
I just tried it out and it didn't seem to change anything.
@fbennett I suspect this is a citeproc-js bug?
Sorry for the panicky tone, I'm in the final couple months of the PhD and things are stressful, to say the least.
In MHRA and Chicago, at least, when I have an entry with a range of years in the 'date' field it omits everything after the first year. http://imgur.com/a/vZzHn
I can manually make it work, by putting the years instead in the publisher field (e.g. 'Brill, 1972–74'), but it's a bit of a pain and occasionally I forget and lose the other years in my references.
Correct me any Zotero guru if I am wrong, please.
EDIT: See this https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/65419/series-published-across-multiple-years
issued: 1991/2016
(Also, panicky is totally fine. That describes a pretty substantial group of the people asking for help here.)
I have another one, if that's okay? From much messing around I've found that if a comma is outside of quotation marks (' ') in the suffix field the first quotation mark will be turned the wrong way (compare note 25 to note 26). I've tried this in MHRA and Chicago with the same results.
http://imgur.com/ASVUW3F
So, basically when anything is in quotation marks (' ') in the prefix or suffix fields for a footnote the direction of the quotation marks is screwed up. It is a bit different depending on whether there are one or two sets of quotation marks in the fields (compare the first and second images below).
http://imgur.com/a/6xYfq
http://imgur.com/a/rfLHL
In the first one (brackets to show spacing, not included in prefix/suffix):
Prefix: ['quote', 'quote', ]
Suffix: [, 'quote', 'quote']
In the second one:
Prefix: ['quote', ]
Suffix: [, 'quote']
I only insert straight quotation marks in Zotero so it can automatically figure out whether they are left or right leaning.