where is my revised style?

bglixon

I am new to zotero, and just made my first revision to Chicago Manual of Style so as allow annotations to be printed out with my bibliography. I went through the whole process, to the point where I copied the saved file (which then downloaded onto my computer)into a new window of firefox. Now when I ask for my bibliography to be created, the dropdown list contains the styles it had before. Where can I go to find my new style that will accomodate the annotations. Or have I done something incorrectly? I did paste in the line ,text variable, etc., and I created a new name and id. Thanks.

adamsmith

you did something wrong, but it's hard to tell exactly what.
Did you paste your style into a text editor and save it as csl from there? You can't save directly from the csledit window.

bglixon

Maybe that's what I did wrong. I thought I was following everything exactly, but I've only had 3 hours of sleep! when I paste into the text editor do I have to paste in the ENTIRE style, from top to bottom? I know I did not save it in the wordpad file. I pasted the new information from there into the "test pane," where I could see my annotation appear. So, what I should do is:

1) copy the entire "style" into my wordpad and insert the new command for the abstract into that?

2) then paste that entire style into the test pane?

3) see that it works, then go back to the wordpad file and save it as a csl file?

4) then paste the whole thing to that other site verify the code (that didn't work for me - I didn't get a notification that the code was ok, but I went ahead with the process anyway)

5) then transfer the wordpad file with the csl suffix to a new firefox window and hit install

6) the revised style will then come up somewhere in the dropdown box when I go to produce a bibliography



Please let me know where I've gone wrong. I only started using zotero less than 24 hours ago, and have to make revisions so as to make sure it will work for my research class (I'm the teacher). We don't seem to have any training here.



My other problem is that now my latest bibliographies aren't getting downloaded - it asks if I want to replace the previous one and I say yes, but only see yesterday's in the downloads. But if I say "save to clipboard" it's ok.



Thanks,

Beth

adamsmith

Yes, this is right, but you should _not_ use Wordpad which doesn't save files as plaintext. Use notepad or download the (free) notepad++
Also, often when a style doesn't appear, a user forgot to change _both_ the title and the id

My other problem is that now my latest bibliographies aren't getting downloaded - it asks if I want to replace the previous one and I say yes, but only see yesterday's in the downloads. But if I say "save to clipboard" it's ok.

please start separate threads on separate issues. I don't quite understand what you're saying here (is this about syncing?) so please provide some more detail as well as the exact text of the message(s) you receive in that new thread.

bglixon

Adam Smith: I copied the entire "style" text into notepad. I made my changes. When I paste it into the reference test pane I get the following parsing error (I only copied where the errors are highlighted). I copied the style text by hitting control all, control copy in the Chicago manual style that I chose. When it pastes into notepad it no longer looks like a tree but is all consecutively joined, but I doubt that is where the problem is. Here is the error:

<citation disambiguate-add-names="true" et-al-use-first="1" et-al-min="4"> -<layout delimiter="; " suffix="."> -<choose> -<if position="ibid-with-locator"> -<group delimiter=", "> <text term="ibid"/> <text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/> </group> </if> -<else-if position="ibid"> <text term="ibid"/> </else-if> -<else-if position="subsequent"> -<group delimiter=", "> <text macro="contributors-short"/> <text macro="title-short"/> <text macro="point-locators-subsequent"/> </group> </else-if> -<else> -<group delimiter=", "> -<group delimiter=": "> -<group delimiter=", "> -<group delimiter=" "> -<group delimiter=", "> -<group delimiter=" "> -<group delimiter=", "> -<group delimiter=" "> -<group delimiter=", "> <text macro="contributors-note"/> <text macro="title-note"/> </group> <text macro="description-note"/> </group> <text macro="secondary-contributors-note"/> <text macro="container-title-note"/> <text macro="container-contributors-note"/> </group> <text macro="locators-note-join-with-space"/> </group> <text macro="locators-note-join-with-comma"/> <text macro="collection-title"/> <text macro="issue-note-join-with-comma"/> </group> <text macro="issue-note-join-with-space"/> </group> <text macro="locators-newspaper"/> <text macro="point-locators-join-with-comma"/> </group> <text macro="point-locators-join-with-colon"/> </group> <text macro="access-note"/> </group> </else> </choose> </layout> </citation> -<bibliography et-al-use-first="7" et-al-min="1

At least I thought it was the error, as it has the red squiggly line.

and the error message on the bottom pane: Error parsing style:
SyntaxError: syntax error.

Am I supposed to start copying at the top of the style page (which is what I did by selecting "control a,") or at the second line, "style demote-non-dropping-particle="sort-only"?

bglixon

the red squiggly line begins around here: et-al-use-first="1" et-al-min

adamsmith

where are you copying the style from? Here?
http://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography
it looks like you get the hyphens from the XML display of Firefox in the style, that'd break it.
Open the style in the test panel (by selecting it on the top right).
You can make all changes in the test panel, you'll see directly when something isn't working. When you're done and the style is still working, copy it (everything inside the window - use ctrl+a --> ctrl+c) to notepad and save as csl.

bglixon

Thank you for your patience. I'm on the right track now.