Cfrgtkky

I have a problem with biblatex-dw when there are titles ending with a full stop, ellipsis symbol or question mark. They are interpreted as end of a sentence and influence later bib macros.

In the MWE the textelp{} (which is required here) of the entry ABC has the effect that the

Trans. by

is written with an uppercase 'T' instead of the desired behaviour of entry ABC2 with output

, trans. b

So I'm looking for a way to somehow hide the full stop/question mark/ellipses from the bib macro.

MWE:

documentclass{article}

usepackage[backend=biber,style=footnote-dw]{biblatex}

usepackage{csquotes}



begin{filecontents*}{MWE.bib}

@BOOK{ABC,

    author = {Cornelisse, J. W. and Schoeyer, H. Ferry R. and Wakker, Karel F.},

        translator  = {Smith, John}, 

    title = {Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics textelp{}},

    year = {1979},

    publisher = {Pitman},

}



@BOOK{ABC2,

    author = {Cornelisse, J. W. and Schoeyer, H. Ferry R. and Wakker, Karel F.},

        translator  = {Smith, John}, 

    title = {Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics},

    year = {1979},

    publisher = {Pitman},

}

end{filecontents*}





bibliography{MWE.bib}



begin{document}

     Not the desired outputautocite{ABC}.

    Desired outputautocite{ABC2}.

end{document}

Apparently, the textelp{} makes biblatex's punctuation tracker think that the title ends in a sentence-ending full stop. biblatex then suppresses the unwanted double punctuation of a sentence-ending full stop and a comma. You can tell biblatex that the textelp{} is not a sentence-ending full stop with isdot.

documentclass[british]{article}

usepackage{babel}

usepackage{csquotes}

usepackage[backend=biber,style=footnote-dw]{biblatex}

usepackage{filecontents}

begin{filecontents*}{jobname.bib}

@book{ABC,

  author     = {Cornelisse, J. W. and Schoeyer, H. Ferry R. and Wakker, Karel F.}  ,

  translator = {Smith, John}, 

  title      = {Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics textelp{}isdot},

  year       = {1979},

  publisher  = {Pitman},

}

@book{ABC2,

  author     = {Cornelisse, J. W. and Schoeyer, H. Ferry R. and Wakker, Karel F.},

  translator = {Smith, John}, 

  title      = {Rocket Propulsion and Spaceflight Dynamics},

  year       = {1979},

  publisher  = {Pitman},

}

end{filecontents*}



bibliography{jobname.bib}



begin{document}

  Not the desired outputautocite{ABC}.

  Desired outputautocite{ABC2}.

end{document}