Troubles adding a citation ID: 1987002443

ITAS_Verkehr

I am having the following problem: I have updated my zotero to version 2.1.1. Since then I am having troubles adding citations into word 2007 documents. Everytime I want to add or edit a citation I receive an error message. I am using a german version, I can hardly translate it in English, since I neither understand it properly in German. In German it sais: "Der Wert für das Maß muss zwischen 0,7 pt und 1584 pt liegen" Meaning something like: the criterion for the coefficient has to be between 0,7 pt and 1584 pt.
What does it mean? And what do I need to do?

adamsmith

have you tried different citation styles?

martjepetersen

I had the same problem. After changing the citation style the error disappeared.
Thanks for the advice!

morphiumdeus

I had the same problem (it only happened with books and so on) and it does disappear when I change the citation style. The problem is that I needed my style.

So I found a solution which might work:
In the "author-short" macro I had this:

<macro name="author-short">
<choose>
<if variable="volume" type="book" match="all">
<text variable="volume" />
</if>
<else>
...
</else>
</choose>


I deleted all this code and just left the part replaced by "..." and it worked again. I don't exactly know why it works but perhaps that works for you too...

adamsmith

the reason this didn't work is that invalid csl fails more consistently in Zotero 2.1 -
if you need to test for a variable and a type you need two nested ifs:
<if variable="volume">
<if type="book">
....
<if>
</if>

fbennett

Ah, I didn't notice that. In the course of sorting out another issue today, I discovered that the "all" match term was not working correctly. I've fixed that processor bug, and the original CSL should work in the next release (I think).

Rintze

@adamsmith: it should be possible to test multiple conditions on a single cs:if element. Also, your nested example contains some errors (you'd need to nest both cs:choose and cs:if, and the third tag should be an end-tag).

IBL

Using my self-made citation style I get the same error message although not using either combined if queries or the "all" match term.

Any general hints?

adamsmith

Have you validated your citation style?
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles#validation
Invalid styles won't work in Z2.1, even if they used to.

IBL

Thanks for your comment; actually there are two mistakes in the code.

adamsmith

let us know if you have trouble fixing them.