Zotero 2Beta Bibliography Uses ??? Instead of ---

jharman

I'm using the latest (as of Feb. 26) Zotero 2 Beta files for Firefox and OpenOffice/LibreOffice. I'm working in Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 on AMD64.

Zotero works great, first off.

But on inserting the Bibliography (Chicago Style Guide) repeat entries that normally would replace the author's name with dashes are rendered by 3 question marks.

For example:

Plato. “Apology.” In Plato Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson, translated by G.M.A. Grube, 17-36. Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1997.
???. “Phaedo.” In Plato Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson, translated by G.M.A. Grube, 49-100. Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1997.

jharman

If I remember correctly, OOo does this at times importing characters it does not recognize. I'm not sure how to modify this.

fbennett

I've looked into this, and it appears that the RTF converter in the processor is not escaping em-dash characters. It should be simple to fix; Chinese characters are correctly rendered, so it looks to be just be a matter of extending the scope of the escaping mechanism to cover the Unicode em-dash character as well.

When I get a fix in place, I'll issue a fresh release of the processor, and this problem should go away in a subsequent release.

(Edit: Slight correction: the escaping mechanism is correct, but the processor was not applying it to that particular element of the output.)

(Edit: Done. A fix has been applied to the processor, checked in to the source repository, and noticed to the development team.)

jharman

Thanks! So it'll be fixed in the next beta?

fbennett

Yep. Since this turned out to be completely a processor issue, it's just a matter of upgrading the version of citeproc-js that Zotero uses to generate citations and bibliographies. As you can tell from the processor version number (currently 1.0.117), we've been through a few revision cycles since this whole thing started, so that's a familiar tango.