How to hide Zotero notes?

karenmbeil3048

Is there a way to hide Zotero endnotes and footnotes so that I can work with and print out a clean manuscript free of notes and their superscripted numbers?

adamsmith

Not really, no. This would likely be something that you'd want to solve in the word processor, and a quick google shows that it's at least not easily possible in Word (though there are workarounds that you can find that way).
At least for on-screen reading, you could also likely define the footnote anchor and text as hidden or white, so it won't show.

mronkko

There used to be a blank style, but I do not know how well it works with the current Zotero version. You can find the style here:

https://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-styles/src/37778ca5f4b1/blank.csl

adamsmith

I believe Zotero should produce a warning for blank citations [ CSL error: No printed form]

mronkko

It does, but that can then be globally replaced with a blank string, resulting in a clean document.

fbennett

You could probably avoid the empty cite warning by rendering only a zero-width space.

karenmbeil3048

I haven't worked with Zotero for very long. Are you saying there's a possibility of losing the citations if you try to hide the footnotes?

fbennett

None of the suggestions floated so far should cause citations to be lost from the document. Switching back to a normal style should wake them up again.

karenmbeil3048

Thanks to all for the help. I'll give it a try.