Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#1811 new enhancement
Remove ambiguity from two-field names that have only a family value — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | fbennett | Owned by: | simon |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | word integration | Version: | 2.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | fbennett |
Description
Some users have been confused by the handling of names in Zotero 2.1. citeproc-js discriminates between personal and institutional names, and will format these correctly when authorship is by a mixture of persons and the institutions with which they are affiliated. It's not a bad feature, but the interface needs a small adjustment to make it more intuitive.
Currently (Zotero 2.1.5, citeproc-js 1.0.144), any name with a value only in the last name field is treated as an institution, in both Zotero field modes. With the attached patch and citeproc-js 1.0.145 or higher, names in two-field mode will always be treated as personal names. With this change, the UI becomes smoothly intuitive (one-field mode === institution, two-field mode === person). It should pretty well eliminate this category of questions/complaints from the forums.
Looking back, this behavior really should have been documented in the processor manual, so it could be picked up and discussed. But the last small glitches in behavior have been ferreted out in response to user feedback, and if this UI change can be applied, it should work out quite smoothly.
