Re: Problem with "a.k.a." abbreviation in citeproc titles

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Pandoc follows the CSL docs:

> "Title case conversion (with text-case set to “title”) for English-language
> items is performed by:
>
> For uppercase strings, the first character of each word remains capitalized.
> All other letters are lowercased.
> For lower or mixed case strings, the first character of each lowercase word
> is capitalized. The case of words in mixed or uppercase stays the same.
> In both cases, stop words are lowercased, unless they are the first or last
> word in the string, or follow a colon. The stop words are “a”, “an”, “and”,
> “as”, “at”, “but”, “by”, “down”, “for”, “from”, “in”, “into”, “nor”, “of”,
> “on”, “onto”, “or”, “over”, “so”, “the”, “till”, “to”, “up”, “via”, “with”,
> and “yet”.

As far as I can see, this says that "a.k.a." should be
capitalized (even though obviously that's not a good
outcome).

It seems to me that a good rule would be that any word
containing an internal period should have its case left
alone, but it would be good to get feedback from the
CSL/Zotero side.

+++ Joseph Reagle [Oct 12 17 10:00 ]:
>I'm not sure if the problem is my data, citeproc, or the CSL. The problem is the awkward casing of "A.k.a." when `--style-csl chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl`:
>
>Paul Buchheit, “Applied Philosophy, A.k.a. ‘Hacking’,” Web log message, (October 13, 2009), http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-aka-hacking.html.↩
>
>
>My data:
>
>---
>- id: Buchheit2009apk
>  type: post-weblog
>  genre: Web log message
>  abstract: "Developer of Gmail discusses hacking of systems"
>  author:
>  - family: "Buchheit"
>    given: "Paul"
>  custom2: "lh.mm"
>  issued:
>    year: 2009
>    month: 10
>    day: 13
>  title: "Applied philosophy, a.k.a. \'hacking\'"
>  URL: "http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-aka-hacking.html"
>  accessed:
>    year: 2015
>    month: 07
>    day: 23
>...
>
>Should I be somehow escaping punctuated initialisms?
>
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