Granted. But I didn't say I was; just suggested there may be different opinions.
And Ctrl/Cmd-I is hardly funky—it's pretty much universal in rich-text editors.
I'm not talking about those, but the other cases (though why on earth is there a need for small caps; smalls caps that aren't actually even real small caps?).
OK. I agree with you there, which is why I suggested context menu options for super/sub. There's no particular harm in choosing some shortcuts for super/sub for power users, but I doubt they'd get much use.
Overall, though, I think Ctrl/Cmd-B and Ctrl/Cmd-I plus context menu options are an easy win over markup for general ease of use and discoverability.
If these shortcuts and/or context menu options are implemented, will their use still insert the HTML-like tags around the selected text (as long as the field is active)? Or will you directly show the formatted text (which might be hard to do in the case of sub/superscript and small caps).
smalls caps that aren't actually even real small caps
If this is a reference to the non-standard markup citeproc-js uses for small caps, I agree that it should recognize <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">. That should be possible, as an alternative to the current shorthand markup. I'll take a look, if that's desired.
[Edit 2012-08-12: I finally got around to this; the "span" syntax suggested here is now recognized by citeproc-js - F.B.]
fbennett: I think Bruce was referring to the fact that small caps are often simulated, since most fonts don't have, as typography geeks would prefer, a separate set of small caps glyphs.
Just today discovered that formatting titles now works, great, and thanks devs! No more hand editing of the refs in Word. The present implementation comes with a drawback, though: Searching for titles (which I use quite often) requires that you format your search string, too. For example, the title stored as: Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome <i>bo</i><sub>3</sub>
is not found if searching simply for, say, cytochrome bo3.
Any plans of introducing an option to ignore formatting in the search function? Or maybe it's there already, and I just haven't found it...
Where are the instructions for use Zotero in a manual form? Looking through all the posts is time-consuming and for many of us, time is money.
All I want to know is whether or not I can italicize a term, such a botanical name, in a an article or book title. There should be a quick way to do this. I don't see any way. Where are the instructions?
Dan Stillman already agreed that keyboard shortcuts would be the way to go, but I don't think any work on it has been done. (it would make the life of biologists a lot nicer, though)
I've just been reading through this thread to work out how to put italics within journal article titles and just wanted to say that as an arts researcher with zero coding knowledge <i> </i> is absolutely fine for me, I just could have done with it being made obvious somewhere in the FAQs. Thanks for all the comments and useful info.
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Overall, though, I think Ctrl/Cmd-B and Ctrl/Cmd-I plus context menu options are an easy win over markup for general ease of use and discoverability.
[Edit 2012-08-12: I finally got around to this; the "span" syntax suggested here is now recognized by citeproc-js - F.B.]
Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome <i>bo</i><sub>3</sub>
is not found if searching simply for, say,
cytochrome bo3.Any plans of introducing an option to ignore formatting in the search function? Or maybe it's there already, and I just haven't found it...
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/81
All I want to know is whether or not I can italicize a term, such a botanical name, in a an article or book title. There should be a quick way to do this. I don't see any way. Where are the instructions?
Fifth hit from the top, using the search box on the zotero.org front page and searching for "italics title".
First hit listed, using advanced search and selecting "Documentation".
See http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3875/rich-text-in-titles/?Focus=110229#Comment_110229
I've just been reading through this thread to work out how to put italics within journal article titles and just wanted to say that as an arts researcher with zero coding knowledge <i> </i> is absolutely fine for me, I just could have done with it being made obvious somewhere in the FAQs. Thanks for all the comments and useful info.
Working on a manuscript, and finding myself copy and pasting the HTML tags, which is harder than it should be.
The only thing I could find is https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/439