[MLZ] Word index fields break "Insert Bibliography" (I think...)
Using fully updated Zotero Multilingual (MLZ).
Trying to index a Word document with a concordance file.
I can insert the Zotero bibliography first, but then the entire source list becomes part of the index. I can manually edit this, but given the length and number of citations and index entries I'd like to be able to do the following: add index codes from the concordance file first (automatically, with AutoMark), and then Insert Bibliography from the Zotero toolbar. However, doing so gives me nothing. Are the index fields interfering with Zotero? Or is there another issue here?
As always, your expertise and generosity is appreciated.
Trying to index a Word document with a concordance file.
I can insert the Zotero bibliography first, but then the entire source list becomes part of the index. I can manually edit this, but given the length and number of citations and index entries I'd like to be able to do the following: add index codes from the concordance file first (automatically, with AutoMark), and then Insert Bibliography from the Zotero toolbar. However, doing so gives me nothing. Are the index fields interfering with Zotero? Or is there another issue here?
As always, your expertise and generosity is appreciated.
Here's what I did and how I know that things are not good:
I created the Index w/ AutoMark. I then created a new document in Word, set DocPrefs to the correct citation format, and pasted all of my citations into it. I then attempted to add a bibliography from the Zotero toolbar, and it just hangs. Forever.
I've tried this method several times, always with a completely blank, unedited document. Sometimes "Zotero Insert Bibliography" just switches window focus back to Firefox, and other times it inserts {Citation} into the document. In both cases, after that there is no progress, no twitching, nothing.
This is a VERY URGENT issue since my deadline is less than a week away.
Simon wrote the word plugins and probably has better insight into any issues that can come up, so if this is a more general issue - and it could be, I doubt Zotero has been tested with autoMark - but there is just no way he or the rest of the Zotero team at GMU can support a fork like MLZ.
To test this with regular Zotero, you can easily install vanilla Zotero into a separate Firefox profile and transfer your database so that there is no risk of data loss.
1) Insert the Zotero bibliography
2) (optional) use the "Zotero Remove Codes" button [Warning: make sure you do this in a copy of your original document]
3) Cut and paste the bibliography into a different document
4) Index the Word document
5) Put back the bibliography
Here's what I did:
As above, created new document, set doc prefs, etc.
After pasting in the footnotes containing all of my references, I ran the following Visual Basic script to remove all indexing codes (again): (Found here: http://is.gd/xAVSDG)
I then (and this appears to have been the critical step!) clicked "Zotero Refresh" on the toolbar. This fixed the broken reference(s), after which I was able to insert the source list in the normal manner.
After I submit this document (it's my dissertation) I might go back and try some of the methods suggested, but for now this was a good enough workaround.
@nathan.hopson: When the waters are calm and after you submit, it would be great if you could try reproducing the error in standard Zotero. That would be valuable information.