written text highlighted as citation

edwardb3

After inserting a reference in Open Office writer, all following text I write gets highlighted in grey as a continuation of that same citation. I cant seem to turn the citation highlighter off.
For example: “Adams (2002:122) is not aware of the level...” this all becomes greyed and considered part of the inserted reference.
My thesis is getting destroyed by this. Please help if you can. Im using most updated version of Zotero and Open Office.
Thank you

Jon Rubin

Not sure how you're getting this behaviour as this was a bug that was fixed a while ago.
How to fix your document is easy enough though:
insert cursor at the end of the reference, hit return
hit space, move your cursor to the beginning of this new line, hit backspace (joining your two bits of text back together again but now with a space after the reference).

Not elegant but it should work.

If you keep getting this (like I said, you really shouldn't be) then you need to enter an extra space [e.g. Adams space space] then move back (left arrow) one character before entering your citation. That way you've got a space after your citation (right arrow time) to start entering your new text outside of the field.

edwardb3

thank you for the help. The bug mainly resolved itself after I switched to a different writing style format. The bug is now much less so, yet very occasionally comes back.
Your responce is a good try of a solution. but I had tried this kind of thing when I was having problems. The Greyed highlighter would remain attached to my blinking writing line (the text cursor) no matter what tricks I pulled with spaces, backspaces and returns.

By your instructions I have learned that "backspacing" into the citation and correcting/altering it will drag said citation grey highlighter as one writes onward.

THIS PROBLEM HAS BEEN RESOLVED
(although not by means described or understood) - thank you
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