"ibid." function in large openoffice document doesn't work

I am using zotero 3.0.3 in firefox with the openoffice writer plugin. I am working in a 250 + page document with many footnotes, using Chicago Manual of Style (full note). This document was merged from several shorter chapters.

The Problem: when I cite a reference successively, zotero does not consistently use ibid. In some places it works, in others it doesn't.

Example:

5 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1989), 245.
6 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 250. [instead of Ibid., 250.]

(I copied/pasted a short selection of my document into a new document. After deleting and re-entering the first citation, the subsequent citations were correctly formatted as "Ibid...")

I appreciate any light you can shed on this problem. I searched the boards and didn't find the answer. Thanks.
  • The most likely cause is that footnote numbers are being reset to 1 at the start of each chapter, as we discovered in this thread</a?.
  • I think it should be possible to control for this, actually, since the conditions that trigger the failure are clear. I will try to take a look at it in the next week or so.
  • fbennett, you are correct. I have the footnote numeration restarting at the beginning of each chapter. I will check out the thread.
  • I've now fixed this in the processor (version 1.0.326). When the revisions are picked up by Zotero, resetting the note numbers at each chapter boundary will no longer break back-referencing.
  • Thank you for your help on this!

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