Add exceptions to Better BibTex

makislog
Hello, everyone.

Is it possible to set some words that I always want sentence/title case in BBT?
  • bwiernik
    The best approach for this is to store the item in Zotero in sentence case, with any proper nouns and other words set in upper case as needed. If a word should never be in upper case (such as species names), wrap that word in <span class="nocase"> </span> tags.
  • emilianoeheyns
    (which is the Zotero-supported way to do this BTW, it's not specific to BBT)
  • makislog
    Thank you for your answers. Are there any step by step instructions on how to do it?
  • adamsmith
    There aren't really any steps. Any time a word that you don't want BBT/Zotero casing functions to touch appears in a title, you paste
    <span class="nocase"> before it and </span> after it
  • makislog
    Thanks, I thought I had to paste it in a "core" component of Zotero that will be done once and affect every occurrence of that word.

    What about words or phrases that I want capitalized?
  • emilianoeheyns
    You capitalize them.
  • makislog
    Thanks :)
  • emilianoeheyns
    affect every occurrence of that word.
    not as simple as it looks, eg chemical elements (capitalized) that are also regular words: Fe = faith (Spanish), Co = neck (Vietnamese). This goes for the majority of the chemical elements. It should be easy to find lots of these for other cases.

    With better bibtex you can automate what you describe using a postscript.
  • emilianoeheyns
    Oh and even the concept of "word" isn't trivial. Is O'Leary one word or two? NLP is such fun.
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