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Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.
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Plugin changes uppercase to lowercase in title #265

Open Chris-B73 opened 9 months ago

Chris-B73 commented 9 months ago

Describe the bug Using the plugin’s template changes uppercase words to lowercase.

To Reproduce Source is a BibTeX file created by JabRef. It contains:

title = {Politik für eine nachhaltigere Ernährung: Eine integrierte Ernährungspolitik entwickeln und faire Ernährungsumgebungen gestalten}

The literature note content template contains:

title: "{{title}}"

After pressing “ctrl + shift + o” the newly created literature note contains:

title: "Politik für eine nachhaltigere ernährung: Eine integrierte ernährungspolitik entwickeln und faire ernährungsumgebungen gestalten"

The words “Ernährung”, “Ernährungspolitik” und “Ernährungsumgebungen” changed to lowercase.

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orionpilot commented 9 months ago

This is not a Citations bug but a BibTex feature, see here and #191. There is more information about this online, but you can force capitalization by {wrapping} the word or letter.

Chris-B73 commented 9 months ago

Thanks for your answer!

Since I’m not a programmer, I don't understand the code in main.js. How does Citations use/invoke BibTeX? And does it use a BibTeX style file or a BibLaTeX style? Because they handle capitalization.

I use LaTeX/BibTeX since the late 90s. With the BibTeX style files or BibLaTeX styles I use(d), I never saw this happen in any of my compiled bibliographies—and I did not wrap words or letters in {}.

It might be a less invasive solution for Citations users to just change the bst file Citations uses (instead of changing thousands of references).

orionpilot commented 9 months ago

I also don't understand the main.js code, so I've been trying to find workarounds with the features that already exist. You bring up a good point regarding the bst, as I don't know what bst the plugin uses to handle capitalization. I agree it would be best not to have to change thousands of references.

In my (much more limited) usage of LaTeX, I have seen cases where the capitalization in the compiled bibliographies does differ from the entry. Therefore I did have to force capitalizations with {} for some entries. I have also seen some entries which had {} automatically at the right words when I imported the reference, so it would depend how authors had written the initial entry. Maybe this has contributed to you not having to manually add some {}.

I know that exporting from Obsidian (using pandoc or other plugins), you can decide on the bibliography style, but it sounds like you are looking to set a style when you import to Obsidian. I am not sure that changing Citations itself will be easy and quick, so I've been thinking that a solution that takes the {{title}} from the plugin, and updates that string instead would be worth it to consider e.g., other plugins may help or writing a custom script. For example, accessing individual keywords as listed in the bibtex entry in #61.