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

["András Simonyi" <andras.simonyi@gmail.com>]

Dear All,

(sorry for the late reply again)
On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 at 12:27, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/06/2024 16:27, András Simonyi wrote:
> > Of course it could be checked whether
> > a CSL style contains explicit instructions about how to format titles
> > and skip  sentence-case conversion of input for those but this
> > probably would not
> > solve the problems of users who do not want the conversion at all.
>
> Do you mean using title (original) case despite some style requites
> sentence case for English entries? I believed that fields should be
> surrounded with double braces {{...}} this case and the only issue is
> difference of original capitalization and result of conversion to
> sentence case and then back to title case.

Well, what they typically want is using the original title case
despite a style not containing any explicit instruction that the title
field should be in title-case, which, according to the latest. 1.02
CSL standard (https://docs.citationstyles.org/en/stable/specification.html),
implies that the field in question  should be formatted in
sentence-case:

"it is generally preferable to store strings such as titles in
sentence case, and only use text-case if a style desires another case.
Sentence case conversion is deprecated and will be removed in a future version."

> My expectation is that to get consistent results across applications,
> they should share the same preference. However since your choice is
> conscious, I do not insist.

thanks, I agree in general, but in this particular case it seems to me
that, in practice, it'd be hard to introduce common settings across
applications, especially for org-ref and org-cite, both of which have
a number of CSL-related user options.

best wishes,
András