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Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst on Monday June 23, 2025 @06:13AM (#44354099)
> But in the Bibtex file it is very common for the titles to appear in their original title case form

That is common because they are following the rules about how to steer capitalisation when using bib(la)tex:

- If the entry is in English, and the style demands title case, output as is

- If the entry is in English, and the style demands sentence case, convert to sentence-case and output

- If the entry is not in English, output as is

Re:Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now on Saturday July 27, 2024 @07:17PM (#41090053)
Even has highlighting in vscode, and there's a plugin for pugjs snippets.
Re:Show HN: Preprocessor I've been working 4 years now on Saturday July 27, 2024 @07:15PM (#41090046)
But then it would just be pugjs from the looks of it.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on new GitHub layout? on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:58PM (#23632319)
It's fugly. I thought a plugin broke rendering on GH. This seems like a change for change's sake -- I don't see what this was supposed to accomplish.

Put back the "releases" link where it belongs for a start. And why is the code-issues-pullrequest etc left-aligned and the content it governs centered? How did this get out the door?

Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:28AM (#22711322)
And most of such styles are so-called "substyles" -- if the master style they derive of changes, so do they.
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:26AM (#22711313)
That works if it's the author itself, and the author has at least a passing familiarity with BibTeX. Much of the bibtex that you can download from journal cites is itself pretty botched up.
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:21AM (#22711280)
You lose your folder organization (a.o.) that way. There used to be a direct import of the database into Zotero (much like Mendeley can do direct import of Zotero DBs) but that has become impossible since Mendeley have encrypted their database, for which they hand-wave to an unspecified GDPR article that apparently forces their hand, but not Zotero, Excel, or a million other apps that you use to process your own data. Plenty of people have asked Mendeley on Twitter to clarify exactly what article would compel this over the past two years, with not a single public response by Mendeley.
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:12AM (#22711235)
Is, for now. The parts of FF that Zotero relied on are being phased out (listed on the Mozilla docs site as "Archive of obsolete content"), so a transition to Electron is planned, and as part of that transition plan, parts are already being rewritten from XUL into React/HTML.
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @10:09AM (#22711223)
I think citationsy addresses a different public -- it looks to be more like ZoteroBib (zbib.org) or the web-client of Zotero than Zotero Desktop. Citationsy is going to be convenient for one-offs, but it's very common to shop around a paper until it is accepted somewhere, or submit a follow-up paper that builds on an earlier one, and each outlet may have different citation style requirements. Tools like Zotero (and Mendeley) make that fairly easy because you can just switch the style and re-render the document, and you're (ususally) done. With citationsy, as far as I can tell, you'd need to revisit every reference in the paper to adjust it to the new style. And while it seems to have fallen out of favor, I don't think citationsy can do ibid-style referencing.
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:45AM (#22710185)
That last thing is fixable. Open an issue on github for BBT and I'll get you sorted (heh)
Re:Zotero: Personal Research Assistant on Saturday March 28, 2020 @05:43AM (#22710181)
Not auto-export for bibtex though