author name with diacritics causes paragraph mark in document (libreoffice/ubuntu/bookmarks))

yigit
edited May 29, 2018
This is sort of a followon to this thread:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/71638/ubuntu-libreoffice-bookmark-issues-new-lines-junk-bookmarks-etc

However since it's focused on only one problem mentioned there, I started a new thread.

ubuntu: 17.10 with Gnome 3.26.2
Libreoffice : 5.4.6.2
Zotero: 5.0.47
Citation style: Geoarchaeology

The issue is, it seems when the paper authors have some diacritics in their names, and you are using the bookmarks citations (for MSword compatibility), when you insert a citation it causes an extra paragraph mark to be made right after the citation. This is problematic when it comes to the Balkan colleagues.

Steps to reproduce:

Save this test article as a .bib file, and import into zotero 

@article{aardvark_test_2014,
	title = {Test article},
	volume = {12},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Journal of Testing},
	author = {Aardvark, Alvin and Testačić, Tester},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {23--27}
}

Open libreoffice.

Start new document

Paste a bunch of dummy text in (lorem ipsum, etc)

Put cursor in the middle of text, and add new citation.

When the document prefs window pops up, choose BOOKMARKS style (error does not happen with refmarks), and geoarchaeology (also happens with Quaternary Science Reviews, and probably every other style though)

Click ok.

Cite the test article

There will be a paragraph mark directly after the citation. Subsequent citations inserted of the same article will also have this.

Now, go into zotero, and delete the two diacritic characters from the 2nd authors name.

Return to libreoffice, cite the article again. This time, a paragraph mark won't be inserted.
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