I am writing my doctoral thesis in Swedish and just spent some hours figuring out how to create a Swedish language version of the Chicago 16th footnote output style. It works, but it’s complicated and time-consuming t manually replace every English “and” with a Swedish “och”, every English “in” with a Swedish “i”, every English “ed.” with a Swedish “red.” etc. It’s also very easy to erase some tiny letter or blank space by mistake while you’re at it and less easy to know what you erased and where to put it back.
In coming versions of EndNote, I would really appreciate a function where you could change language in an easier way. What is needed is a way to have the equivalents to the words “and”, “in”, “ed.” and other little language-dependent particles inserted in their correct places in whatever style you choose.
What I propose is for EndNote to include some kind of simple function for changing these small words without having to manually erase them and type in their equivalents in a new output style, based on an earlier one in English. This could be done, I imagine, in a number of ways. Either there is a dialogue box that lets you fill in the equivalents of these small words in the language of your choice and save them separately from the output styles and then EndNote could replace them at request in any output style, when you use a command of some sort to ask for it. Or, EndNote could ask for these equivalents when you create a new output style using “save as” and put them in the right place. Maybe there could be a “save as language” option for this. I am sure the developers can find a good solution for this.
/Maria Klasson Sundin, Uppsala, Sweden