Thanks - replacing "language" with "langid" in the bibtex file fixes the capitalization in the bibliography.
Robert.
On Monday, August 7, 2017 at 1:08:36 AM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:
Try langid or hyphenation instead of (or in addition to) language.
See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/96469/switching-languages-in-bibliography-with-biblatex
+++ Robert Goulding [Aug 06 17 14:52 ]:
> Escaping the colon works perfectly, after testing.
> I had one other query. When I convert to docx, the foreign titles are
> put into sentence case, despite the fact that I have the language field
> set. So, for example, the entry in my bibtex file:
> @BOOK{Weinrich1998-zr,
> title = "Die Lichtbrechung in den Theorien von Descartes und
> Fermat",
> author = "Weinrich, Klaus",
> publisher = "F. Steiner",
> series = "Sudhoffs Archiv: Beihefte",
> year = 1998,
> address = "Stuttgart",
> language = "de"
> }
> turns up in my bibliography as: Weinrich, Klaus. 1998. Die
> Lichtbrechung in Den Theorien von Descartes Und Fermat. Sudhoffs
> Archiv: Beihefte. Stuttgart: F. Steiner.
>
> with "den" and "und" capitalized (but not "von"!). I see this behavior
> whether or notI explicitly include the Chicago csl file from the Zotero
> repository, or just use the pandoc default.
> Robert.
> On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 5:33:36 PM UTC-4, Robert Goulding wrote:
>
> Thank you! I will backslash the colons in the file as a fix for now. -
> Robert.
> On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 12:02:43 PM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> Thanks (and apologies if I missed the files before).
> Simple repro here:
> ```
> hi[^fn3]
> [^fn3]: [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius,
> ut appareat supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam."
> ```
> This yields an empty footnote. Why? Because the footnote
> contains:
> ```
> [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]: "competentius est et rationabilius, ut
> appareat supra perpendiculum, quam extra eam."
> ```
> which pandoc is parsing as a reference link definition!
> Perhaps pandoc should not allow reference link definitions
> that start with `@`, since these conflict with citations?
> Anyone have thoughts about this? Someone should probably
> put an issue on the bug tracker for this.
> In the mean time, a workaround is to backslash-escape the
> colon:
> [@Alhazen1572-qk, V.9]\: "competentius...
>
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