Hi,
Working on a style I noticed that the Zotero field “Assignee” is not available in CSL. I used a workaround, but of course it’s not the most intuitive if there is an “Assignee” field right in front of you.
Is there a plan to include this on the CSL and Zotero side?
Apart from that, I often make the mistake of using the term “no-date” only to be reminded by the validator that the actual term is called “no date”. I always wondered how it was chosen that certain terms have a dash, e.g. “no-place”, and some don’t?
Is this something that we’d want to “fix”? Is that even possible given that there will be a bunch of styles already using it and then suddenly not be validating with a new version of CSL is released?
Additionally, should the Zotero field country of a patent be mapped to CSL’s jurisdiction which is defined as “Geographic scope of relevance (e.g. ‘US’ for a US patent …)”?
No special reason, just sloppyness. And yes, that should be harmonized in a future version. I think it should be possible to convert styles using the older term variant to the newer version. (IIRC, we’ve done similar things during the last update.)
In earlier CSL versions, many terms had spaces. In the CSL 1.0.2 update, all new terms used dashes instead for clarity and to avoid any potential future parsing issues. We didn’t align older terms at that time however.