Thanks for the suggestions, a couple of which are kind of stretching my knowledge of these things, but I see where they're going. As to JGM's question: I am using a CSL json bibliography, so my titles are in a single field. ("title":"Science and religion: new perspectives on the dialogue") The issue is that *most* of the journals / publishers I publish in use, as here, the colon. *Some* (mainly German) styles want the period. If I were solely interested in either one, I could choose and just enter the relevant punctuation in the title field. However, I want to continue saving my bibliographic entries with a colon (because that's the most standard one for me), but have the option of automatically converting them to a period for those cases where I need to. If that makes sense. Thus: going through denis's options: 1. I have switched to json bibliographies from bibtex/biblatex as they seemed to offer more flexibility (I was running into issue with the strange archival references I have to make in my field, and JSON seemed to work better in that regard). So this seems to not apply. 2. Seems to not apply, as I have a single title field 3. Sounds really interesting, and I use BBT, though it also sounds like I would here have to create a separate bibliography file from my Zotero database for those publishers/styles that require the dot. This is not *too* onerous, as it would at least be automated. 4. Having a filter that I could simply apply (as part of a pandoc command, say) or not apply as relevant seems like the most flexible / efficient solution. I don't know lua, but if this is one possible way, then I could use it as a (hopefully fairly simple?) way into learning it. Does this help to clarify my situation? denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org schrieb am Freitag, 1. Juli 2022 um 17:34:55 UTC+2: > Yes, that’s a known issue... > > There are a couple of possible solutions : > > > > 1. use biblatex databases and patch pandoc so it will concat title and > subtitle fields using periods. (line 667 > https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Citeproc/BibTeX.hs > ) > > > > 2. I think pandoc’s citeproc will just treat every unknown variable as a > string variable (see > https://github.com/jgm/citeproc/blob/3f94424db469c804cf2dac2d22dc7a18b614f43e/src/Citeproc/Types.hs#L1054 > and > https://github.com/jgm/citeproc/blob/3f94424db469c804cf2dac2d22dc7a18b614f43e/src/Citeproc/Types.hs#L901), > so you should be able to use «subtitle» in styles. (This will give you > warnings when using the style with Zotero and it won’t work reliably across > implementations, but anyway ...) > > > > 3. if you’re using Zotero, you can leverage Zotero BBT’s postscript > feature to manipulate the JSON after exporting. > > E.g., this one : > > if (Translator.BetterCSL && item.title) { > > reference.title = reference.title.replace(/ : /g, '. ') > > } > > Not bullet-proof, but simple. You will want to choose a better separator, > maybe a double-bar or so. > > > > 4. Doing the with lua should also be possible... > > > > The question is: do you have the subtitle in a distinct field or is it > just in the title field? > > > > *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org *Im > Auftrag von *John Carter Wood > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 1. Juli 2022 16:39 > *An:* pandoc-discuss > *Betreff:* Changing colons to full-stops in titles > > > > I have one final (for now...) issue in setting up a CSL file (which I use > with pandoc/citeproc and references in a json file). > > > > I'm not sure whether this is a CSL issue or whether it's an issue that can > be solved via using a filter (or some other solution) in pandoc, but I > thought there might be some people here who might have faced a similar > issue. > > > > The house style for here (German-based publisher) wants a * > full-stop/period *between main title and subtitle in citations / > bibliographies; US/UK standard is a *colon* between main title and > subtitle. And reference managers like Zotero -- IIUC -- save titles as > single fields (at least they are in my version of Zotero). So it doesn't > seem like it is possible to control what delimiter is used between them via > CSL. > > > I have found various discussions of relevant title/subtitle division > issues -- some going back quite a few years -- in forums on Zotero: > > > https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8077/separate-fields-for-title-and-subtitle/ > > ...and CSL: > > > https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/handling-main-sub-title-splits-citeproc-js/1563/11 > > > > However, these were in part discussions among developers about *possible* > changes, and I'm not sure of the current status of this issue or whether > there is a way to handle it. > > Would it be possible to automate turning colons in titles into full-stops > via using a filter? If so is there such a filter already around? Can this > be done via CSL? > > > > Or is this, as of now, impossible? > > (Or is there a real simple solution that I have, as usual, overlooked...) > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/78df697a-50f5-46d0-b0b8-29a2cbc9509an%40googlegroups.com > > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/a2d540a6-a435-4285-aed5-018007d155cfn%40googlegroups.com.