![]() In other words, right now Zotero's BibTeX formatter mangles ALL LaTeX characters. All that is being asked is a way to input, directly or indirectly, something as simple as $_. ![]() The point was to make life easier for everyone, instead of adding another layer of complexity. As it is, simple Unicode isn't even being properly translated to the math-mode equivalents that work in every LaTeX installation. Comments from anyone who has successfully circumvented this issue are extremely welcome.īack to the original issue - aren't these "remedies" piling up to create a lot of work for the author of the BibTeX translator? The translator would have to correctly translate, then, Unicode, MathML (whenever that is implemented), and whatever format the rich note field is in (whenever that is implemented). I would not at all mind hearing why this is a horrible idea, and why something else would work better. I can provide dozens of examples in my own small library of a few hundred references where this would be useful, but I believe the point emphasized here is valid without examples. It also allows much more fine-grained control than a static or sometimes-upgraded mapping table. The advantage of this for Zotero and BibTeX translator developers is that it does not require implementation of any translation features or mapping tables - the "LaTeX Title" field contents would be used as entered by the Zotero user (verbatim), and any problems in the field would be their own responsibility. This way, fancy "things" (leaving that term open in the broadest sense) could be easily input by those who know how and want them, and the feature would not obtrude in the workflows of anyone else. The field would only override the default Title field when it is populated, and then, only for BibTeX export. I believe the feature that would solve all the problems - for LaTeX users in the physical sciences - looks kind of like this - but this is just a rough draft of the idea: A visible-only-when-desired "Title" field, perhaps called "LaTeX Title," that is completely un-escaped, so any users of LaTeX/BibTeX could copy the existing Title field, and modify it appropriately with the desired LaTeX control strings. It seems variations of this dilemma exist in other fields as well, given all the threads I've seen about bold, italics, small caps, etc., being desired. In the physical sciences, there are literally thousands of paper titles that contain either math mode (square root, etc.), Greek, or other special LaTeX characters (super- and sub-script for chemical formulae, etc.). The problem, for me and many other users, is more broad than a need for full Unicode support. In that case, the rest of this comment is probably going to end up becoming a feature request. I think you've cleared up, for me, the current status of things related to this topic.
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