Upgrade Storage[New French style] How to use dates as a variable (i.e. book before 1900: name behave a certain way)
Hello,
A fantastic librarian at the Sorbonne and myself have been working on a new style for Literature in French for almost a year and it's almost there.
One final issue seems to arise : in French, classical authors are often only referred to by their last name (i.e : Denis Diderot would just be Diderot).
But for contemporary authors, and more so for non-literary authors, it is not the case, and we must cite First and Last Name.
I thought a way to get around that might be if it was possible to have a variable in the author-name macro to say : if date or original-date is before 1900, name = Last Name, if else, name = First and Last Name.
Does anyone know if that could work ?
Thanks !
A fantastic librarian at the Sorbonne and myself have been working on a new style for Literature in French for almost a year and it's almost there.
One final issue seems to arise : in French, classical authors are often only referred to by their last name (i.e : Denis Diderot would just be Diderot).
But for contemporary authors, and more so for non-literary authors, it is not the case, and we must cite First and Last Name.
I thought a way to get around that might be if it was possible to have a variable in the author-name macro to say : if date or original-date is before 1900, name = Last Name, if else, name = First and Last Name.
Does anyone know if that could work ?
Thanks !
That said, CSL 1.0.2 has an item type "classic" that you could use to style references differently. That does currently require custom data entry (putting
type: classicinto the Extra field), though.If the reference is a book, and I had "type: classic" in the extra field, will it act as a book except when something is specified for "type: classic"?
or will it be perceived as a completely separate type and we have to add it everywhere in the macro to tell it how to behave ?