Changes to freely localized styles MLA 8th & universita-pontificia-salesiana dashes/inverted commas
Hi,
following the documentation I started searching for things I'd like to change in the above mentioned styles.
For example I would like to have numbers separated by the short dash "-" not the longer one "–" (even if here and within Zotero they are both rendered as long).
I would also like to replace „…“ in German with «...» within the style.
I tried searching both long dash (alt + -) and inverted comma in the style (universita-ponticificia-salesiana) but could not find them.
Any clues if or how this could be done? Thank you in advance.
following the documentation I started searching for things I'd like to change in the above mentioned styles.
For example I would like to have numbers separated by the short dash "-" not the longer one "–" (even if here and within Zotero they are both rendered as long).
I would also like to replace „…“ in German with «...» within the style.
I tried searching both long dash (alt + -) and inverted comma in the style (universita-ponticificia-salesiana) but could not find them.
Any clues if or how this could be done? Thank you in advance.
<!-- PUNCTUATION -->
<term name="open-quote">„</term>
<term name="close-quote">“</term>
<term name="open-inner-quote">‚</term>
<term name="close-inner-quote">‘</term>
<term name="page-range-delimiter">–</term>
You can add a locale section to any style
(
<locale xml:lang="de-DE"><terms>...</terms></locale>
or, where the section already exists add additional terms to an existing locale section
the German locale style is not among the styles I can access from the Zotero file editor and I cannot see it opening the subfolders of my Zotero folder in my Library folder (I am using a Mac Os High Sierra).
How do I access it?
but as I said, you wouldn't actually modify the file (it's packaged with Zotero, so you can't easily). You would integrate parts of it in your style(s) of choice.
After I enter the short dash in the modified style and save it to the styles folder and open it again I have the longer dash instead of the short one.
–
Do you know why?
Modifying it and adding the rule for the short dash. In this style the short dash stays there when I open again and the output is correct.
Not so in the universita-ponticificia-salesiana modified style where it gets transformed in the code itself to a longer dash.
For some reason I wasn't saving the last changes and it was showing the style prior to that. Now that I managed to save the last changes, both styles show the changes correctly. Thanks a lot.