Re: [PATCH] oc-csl: New custom option `org-cite-csl-sentence-case-bibtex-titles'

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

András Simonyi <andras.simonyi@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 11 May 2024 at 19:24, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
>>> > since bibtex and biblatex requires title fields to be in title case
>> Are you sure? AFAIK, bibtex and biblatex (depending on the bibstyle)
>> does not care about capitalization and instead applies its own, unless
>> the title explicitly protects the capitalization/case with {Curly
>> BracketS}.
>
> Yes, I'm pretty sure that the expected casing in .bib bibliography
> databases for the title fields is by default title case, plus
> protective braces around texts whose case shouldn't be touched during
> formatting (of course, formatting itself can produce both sentence and
> title case from this input depending on the used style). This
> requirement was already clearly stated in Lamport's original LaTeX
> book. To quote the relevant part of "The Bibliography Database"
> chapter  (2nd edition, p. 158):
> ...
> These requirements haven't changed since then and also hold for
> biblatex, see, e.g.,
> ...

Thanks for the explanation.
I also cross-checked with the examples given in
https://ctan.org/pkg/bibtex - all consistent.

> I'm a bit unsure about naming the option:
> Perhaps `org-cite-csl-sentence-case-bibtex-titles-without-langid'
> would be more precise but I found it absurdly long and technical, as
> most users are probably unaware of the existence of langid fields.

Maybe org-cite-csl-sentence-case-english-titles?

Also, it would be nice to point out the CSL and Bibtex have different
conventions for the title field.

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