Some zotero issues

CSL Development
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A couple of things that I would really like to see support for but need to
change the schema.

  1. A way to override the citation text. My course insists the citation to
    the primary reference book should be either (HP) or (HP, p206) type. It is
    really difficult to do this with the current model. I have to abuse some
    other field and use that (which is what bug 3 above is trying to do).

This has come up before (though is not a Zotero issue). I think the
logic would probably be an option to use the abbreviated title instead
of the full where present.

  1. Some way to test a name. I don’t think you can currently do a conditional
    on whether an author field is set or not. (same is probably true for date
    fields). I want something like but author isn’t a
    variable. So maybe might be a better syntax. I know that
    substitute allows some modifications, but its not enough for real
    flexibility.

Simon, did this slip through the cracks? Seems reasonable that we add it.

  1. Being able to output the type directly would just be convenient, rather
    than the mega in the sample.

I suppose it’s easy enough to add that variable.

Bruce

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A couple of things that I would really like to see support for but need
to
change the schema.

  1. A way to override the citation text. My course insists the citation
    to
    the primary reference book should be either (HP) or (HP, p206) type. It
    is
    really difficult to do this with the current model. I have to abuse some
    other field and use that (which is what bug 3 above is trying to do).

This has come up before (though is not a Zotero issue). I think the
logic would probably be an option to use the abbreviated title instead
of the full where present.

I considered this, but there is no conditional syntax to tell if there is a
short form of the variable present (I don’t think you can do and it would get messy with multiple
variables being tested too.
In any case the long form is usually helpfully substituted for you if there
is no short form.

Ideally it would be something like:


…


usual author stuff
</else

Julian.

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should work, and should be implemented in
Zotero. Not sure if it’s in the schema, but I thought it was there.
Names and dates are variables, since they have a "variable"
attribute. They’re just not text variables.

Simon

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Oh yes! I see it now in the schema. DOH!
Must be a zotero issue then, as





produces nothing, but change author to page or title and it does. The dates
issued and accessed also fail to produce output.

Julian.