Upgrade StorageBug report: NeoOffice plugin, MLA style citation: everything underlined!
It's my first day (practically my first hour) with Zotero, and I'm very impressed. Fantastic work.
I have found what seems to be a reproducible bug with the NeoOffice plugin though. I've done a quick search of the forum, but I haven't found other reports of the same thing, so here are the details:
Symptom: after inserting an MLA citation, everything is underlined [!]
To reproduce:
1. Make sure Zotero contains two works by the same author.
2. In NeoOffice, insert a reference to either of the two without a page number [You'll wind up with something like (Authorname)].
3. In NeoOffice, insert a citation to the second work--with or without a page number.
Result: everything from the beginning of the title of the first citation to the end of the document is underlined. This happens regardless of the order in which steps 2 and 3 are performed.
Software info:
* Zotero 1.0.2
* NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch 2
* NeoOffice-plugin 1.0b2
Variations:
1. If the second citation has a page number the output is something like this:
(Authorname, Title of work
(Authorname, Title of other work 123)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adispiscing. [end of document]
2. If the second citation does not contain a page number, the output is something like this:
(Authorname, Title of work
(Authorname, Title of other work
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adispiscing. [end of document]
Notice the missing closing parentheses on both examples.
An educated guess at the cause:
Somehow or other, once the titles have been inserted, the xml tag enclosing the title (or whichever tag is styled for underlining) is not closed in each of the page-numberless citations.
I realize that putting in a citation without a page number is not a common use-case, but if you mistakenly omit the page number, it is a bit tedious to manually remove underlining from the entire document... :-)
I have found what seems to be a reproducible bug with the NeoOffice plugin though. I've done a quick search of the forum, but I haven't found other reports of the same thing, so here are the details:
Symptom: after inserting an MLA citation, everything is underlined [!]
To reproduce:
1. Make sure Zotero contains two works by the same author.
2. In NeoOffice, insert a reference to either of the two without a page number [You'll wind up with something like (Authorname)].
3. In NeoOffice, insert a citation to the second work--with or without a page number.
Result: everything from the beginning of the title of the first citation to the end of the document is underlined. This happens regardless of the order in which steps 2 and 3 are performed.
Software info:
* Zotero 1.0.2
* NeoOffice 2.2.2 Patch 2
* NeoOffice-plugin 1.0b2
Variations:
1. If the second citation has a page number the output is something like this:
(Authorname, Title of work
(Authorname, Title of other work 123)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adispiscing. [end of document]
2. If the second citation does not contain a page number, the output is something like this:
(Authorname, Title of work
(Authorname, Title of other work
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adispiscing. [end of document]
Notice the missing closing parentheses on both examples.
An educated guess at the cause:
Somehow or other, once the titles have been inserted, the xml tag enclosing the title (or whichever tag is styled for underlining) is not closed in each of the page-numberless citations.
I realize that putting in a citation without a page number is not a common use-case, but if you mistakenly omit the page number, it is a bit tedious to manually remove underlining from the entire document... :-)
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dstillman Zotero TeamTicket created, thanks.
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