font-style="italic" doesn't work for Chinese publication

johnmy · March 15, 2021

hi all,

I edited a csl file, and used font-style="italic" for <container-title> , the code is


<text variable="container-title" suffix=". " font-style="italic"/>

,

and the English publication italicizes, however the Chinese publication remains unchanged.

the snapshot: https://ibb.co/rp59mbj

the gist: https://gist.github.com/redleafnew/1139eb32d6204ca4eebfd2e90dd75d18

an example item:https://gist.github.com/redleafnew/9b71ab6b5577bb32a7504ee0916d9939

Many thanks.

adamsmith · March 15, 2021

That might be an obvious question, but does the font support italics in Chinese? i.e. can you set this to italics manually in Word and it works?

johnmy · March 15, 2021

thanks @adamsmith , it works in Word, it also works for the author and title field (if the title is set as <text variable="title" font-style="italic"/>, but doesn't work for <container-title>,

see the snapshot: https://ibb.co/n3hqy1M in Word.
the snapshot https://ibb.co/k3gW6BZ for title works.

johnmy · March 20, 2021

How to solve this issue?

bwiernik · March 20, 2021

Can you export the two items you are working with to CSL JSON format, upload somewhere, and post a link here?

johnmy · March 20, 2021

thanks @bwiernik , the JSON could be downloaded https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqvihiwdbcx9ox3/Exported Items.json?dl=0
or https://gist.github.com/redleafnew/ec56d4cc7e9e162ff3e5c9d0092e04dd

johnmy · March 24, 2021

Any progress?@bwiernik

olivercouch · April 4, 2021

I'd suggest moving to GitHub: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/issues/5323

sangoli · September 6, 2022

I have the same problem. Any updates for this issues?

bwiernik · September 7, 2022

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typesetting doesn’t use italics. This is the expected behavior of the citation processor.

Most CJK fonts do not even have italic glyphs, so if italic glyphs are forced they are automatically generated slanted characters, not proper italics (eg, https://catalog.monotype.com/font/microsoft-corporation/meiryo/)

All of the examples I have seen of journals using italics with CJK characters have been verbatim copying rules from English Latin-character styles like APA, which were not written with non-Latin scripts in mind (and indeed APA generally calls for non-Latin titles to be translated or transliterated). So, I'm hesitant to introduce a change into the citation processor that produces improper CJK typesetting without clear indication that this is a deliberate choice to format characters in a way that is supported by almost no fonts, rather than merely copying Western citation styles without careful thought.

For discussion, see https://github.com/Juris-M/citeproc-js/issues/180#issuecomment-999988752

sangoli · September 7, 2022

Please refer to the following manual and the Chinese book name is actually cited as italic.

https://www.tyndale.ca/sites/default/files/2020-05/CCSTStyleManual2016.pdf