overleaf import of zotero special characters

katiewaddle

I would like to be able to enter {\”u} in an author field in Zotero, and have Overleaf import this exactly as written to my .bib file. This way it would get handled correctly by my .bst style file. Currently, it will convert \”u (without curly braces) to ü, which my .bst (a slight personalization of amsalpha.bst) can’t handle, and converts {\”u} to {\textbackslash}"\{u\} which is equally unhelpful. I would prefer to keep using Zotero, but this seems pretty insurmountable currently.

adamsmith

I don't think you can do this using Overleaf's direct Zotero integration.
You can use BetterBibTeX to export literal LaTeX (or either BBT or ZOtero to LaTeX escape non-ascii characters, which generally would probably be easier to get what you want). You can then point Overleaf at the exported .bib file -- you can make that pretty seamless using BBT's auto-export to a synced location like a file on Dropbox or otherwise on the web.

katiewaddle

Thanks! I finally was able to get this up and running. I’m now using BetterBibTex to export my Zotero entries using the auto-export option to a Google Drive file, that then gets linked in Overleaf. In order for my in-text citations to work correctly with BibTex (using my custom .bst style file) it seems I need to enter items in Zotero using e.g., {\"u}, then they will export as written, and then will appear as {\”u} in the bibtex, so that they show up correctly when everything gets compiled. I was not able to get just \”u or {\”u} to export correctly with any BetterBibTex settings.

adamsmith

If you tag items with #LaTeX in Zotero they should export verbatim using BBT

katiewaddle

Oh man, very cool. I found you can set the rawLaTag option to * and then every entry will be treated as raw LaTex! As someone who (obviously) prefers to be hands-on, this is just what I was hoping for! Thank you!