Make Zotero not append a period (.) after et al when renaming pdfs?

skincaredog
I'm primarily using Zotero to rename linked pdfs which it can do automatically on import - yay!

I want to name single and multi author files as follows:

2000 Author. Awesome paper title.pdf
2000 Author et al. Awesome paper 2 title.pdf

But Zotero appends a period after at al, so If I use {%y }{%c. }{%t{200}}, I get the correct format for single author papers but two periods for multiple author papers :(

Any way to fix this? Zotfile renames files correctly without the period, but it's broken and always moves linked files to C:/user etc and doesn't work automatically.
  • dstillman
    So the feature request here would be to only include a single period if a period immediately follows %c in the format string?
  • skincaredog
    The feature request would most simply be to remove the period after "et al" like zotfile does by default, people can add it themselves in advanced config.

    Or to like you suggest only include a single period if there's one after %c in the format string, better yet check if there're two periods after "et al" and remove one :)
  • dstillman
    No, removing the period by default would be grammatically incorrect, so we're not going to do that.

    But I've created an issue for not including a second period if the substituted value ends in a period.
  • skincaredog
    Cool, many thanks! I'll check back on the issue in a few months :)

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