From lyx-users Wed Apr 29 10:57:01 2009 From: Charles de Miramon Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:57:01 +0000 To: lyx-users Subject: Re: Automatic upper case for citation? (using BibLaTeX) Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=lyx-users&m=124100267406712 Piero Faustini wrote: > I find very annoying the fact that when citing with the verbose-trad > styles of BibLaTeX and it switches to latinitates like "Id." and "Ibid.", > LaTeX can't get it to have the correct upper/lower case (I bet this is NOT > a BibLaTeX issue, but a LaTeX problem): > - When citing at the beginning of a footnote, it puts them in lower case > (so I have to manually switch "Force upper case" in the citation dialogue) > - When citing after a dot of a abbreviated word (I for instnace use a lot > the abbreviation "cfr." ("confronta") just before the citation) it > swithches to UPPER CASE!!!!! And this time I can't force it to use lower > case: I tried with small, protected or inter-word space: no way, and as it > does not exist the opposite of "End of sentence", I can't have it > recognize the abbreviation... > > I bet this problem could come back in other cases, e.g. textual " page>" cross-references. > > Is there a way to have this behave correctly? I think no. It is a limitation of the biblatex punctuation system. There are two problems that you should add to biblatex tracker : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1126006&group_id=244752&func=browse First an option to force capitalization at the start of the footnote, an extension of \DeclareCapitalPunctuation{ characters } Second an option to suppress capitalization if there is a special space (like a protected space) after a punctuation that should normally requires a xapital. Whith these two additions, it will be possible to have 15. Ibid., p. 145 and 16. Cf. ibid, p. 147 I have also hit the same problem using biblatex but did not have the time to report the problem. Maybe, you can do it. Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org