CSL question: text replacement

bjohas
In CSL, in it possible to replace variable values as follows?

(1) Remove spaces:

Some variable value -> Somevariablevalue

(2) Replace spaces:

Some variable value -> Some_variable_value

(3) Create abbreviations:

Some variable value -> Svv

(Perhaps as a parameter for 'text-transform'?)
Many thanks!
  • bwiernik
    edited July 29, 2018
    No, it is not possible for CSL to replace text values like that (the only thing that can be removed are periods with strip-periods="true"). You can, however, call the "short" form of title variables in CSL and store these "short" forms in the Extra field in Zotero:
    Title Short: SVV
    Container Title Short: SVV
    Collection Title Short: SVV

    Juris-M (https://juris-m.github.io), a third-party version of Zotero with expanded legal and multilingual capabilities, also includes a powerful Abbreviations Filter that can do this sort of on-the-fly content-based text replacement.

    ('text-transform' is only used to change the casing (capitalization) of text.)
  • bjohas
    Many thanks!

    How would I be able to apply this selectively? Ideally, I would only like to use 'title short' if there are no authors (hence e.g. institution is used) AND the institution has spaces. I suppose the right strategy would be to use the 'title short' (if present) in preference to 'institution'. Is that correct?
  • bjohas
    edited July 29, 2018
    (EDIT: Ah - we need "-", then it works!)

    In the CSL, I'm inserting text variable="collection-title-short":

    <choose>
    <if type="report">
    <text variable="collection-title-short"/>
    <text variable="publisher"/>
    <text variable="title" form="short" font-style="italic"/>
    </if>

    It has the effect of removing the publisher, but nothing is printed instead. So it seems like the field is there, but empty.

    Also, it seems to then suppress the title field, presumably because the 'short title' has been used?

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