How to Remove the Punctuation Between title and titleaddon/subtitle in DOCX Output?

[TomBener]

I’m asking this question because I have a specific requirement for my citations. I’m working with Chinese titles where the value of titleaddon/subtitle is the translated title. The punctuation between the title and titleaddon/subtitle is unnecessary and I’d like to know if there’s a way to remove it.

I’ve asked on the Zotero forum but it seems the issue is not related to the CSL style. In my current CSL modern-asian-studies.csl, there is no definition for titleaddon or subtitle. In this case, I’d like to remove the punctuation between the title and titleaddon/subtitle. E.g. removing the period . or colon : between title and titleaddon/subtitle in the following example:

I have created a GitHub repo to demonstrate this specific issue. If anyone has any suggestions or knows of a way to accomplish this, please let me know. I’d appreciate any help or guidance you can provide.

[jgm]

You're using a bibtex or biblatex bibliography, I imagine? CSL itself doesn't have subtitle. So this has to do with pandoc's conversion from bibtex/biblatex to CSL references. The colon is hard coded; you can't change it. But you could convert your .bib file to csljson using pandoc (pandoc -f biblatex -t csljson) and use the json file as your bibliography; you'd be able to change the punctuation in it. Or you could convert the .bib to markdown pandoc -f biblatex -t markdown -s which would give you something a references section you could insert directly into your markdown file (and you could edit the title there).

[TomBener]

Thanks, converting to csljson is quite useful and solving the problem!

[TomBener]

While by using CSL JSON, the specific punctuations can be removed easily, this approach doesn’t have a built-in feature like biblatex’s double brackets to retain cases, which is strictly necessary in my use-case. Is it possible to use Lua filter to remove the punctuation while using biblatex? Thanks!

[jgm]

In CSL JSON, if I recall, you can do <span class="nocase">aBcD</span> to preserve case.

[TomBener]

It works. Huge thanks!