using and exporting accents

fme
Hi

First a disclaimer, I am a zotero novice - I had a look around the forums for help with this but couldn't get my head around the discussions that I found. So apologies if this has been covered elsewhere.

I am using zotero to manage my references and then export to Bibtex. My question is, how do I enter accents in zotero so that they will export correctly to Bibtex?

Many thanks in advance
F
  • Arithmeticus
    FME:

    First thing to try: Entering your preferred characters the same way you enter them in other programs.

    Second thing to try: Enter your characters either through the Character Map (Windows) or the Character Viewer (Mac). Both of these are programs that come with your operating system, and they let you copy any characters you want.

    The conversion to the BibTeX file should be seamless. Your characters will appear in their native form in the .bib file. That is no guarantee that the next application you use to work with that BibTeX file will do justice to it, because Zotero attempts to be as compliant as possible with Unicode standards. But not every program out there does so. Hope this helps.
  • noksagt
    You can set the character encoding on export. UTF-8 will export the data as-is. Other character endcodings (such as ISO-8859-1) will transliterate many characters into their TeX-encoded equivalents.
  • fme
    Thank you both very much - I wasn't aware of the Character Map, so used that to enter the characters (was previously copying from Word but the Map is much easier), and figured out how to change the character coding on export to ISO-8859-1 which seems to have done the trick - brilliant!

    I have one more question please: is there a way to enter superscripts in Zotero? I have tried typing in Word and copying but the format is lost when I paste into Zotero.

    Thanks again.
  • noksagt
    UTF-8 has characters for sub/super numbers & you can use rich text in notes. You cannot yet use arbitrary rich text in other fields.
  • fme
    OK thanks noksagt, at least I know now to give up with trying that!
  • adamsmith
    this is forthcoming in Zotero 2.1, though - it will use simple tags like <i> etc.
    if you need this urgently you can already insert those tags - Rintze has a post on this which includes a small macro to have Word convert these into the desired rich text.
  • fme
    Excellent thanks for the tip, I don't need it urgently so will look forward to 2.1...
  • noksagt
    But note carefully that there is not yet any html->BibTeX conversion & this will probably come sometime after 2.1
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