Upgrade StorageChange many suffixes at once
Hello everyone,
This is my first post. I have searched the forum but haven't found an answer to this, I hope there is an easy answer to this. The problem I have is the following: In the book manuscript I'm working on I'm citing quite a number of multi-volume works. In the style guide I'm following, it should look something like: ..., ii, p. 12 or ..., iii, p. 34, or iv, p. 56, etc. However, when I started work on the project I missed out the 'p.' when I entered this into the suffix field. Similarly, there are quite a number of references in the document to "r" and "v" which need to be spelled out as recto and verso.
I could search and replace in Word but that might be dangerous and I would risk losing all the changes if I need to tweak the style I have written for this. In Endnote there was always the feature to 'uncode' the formatting. You would see something like {author@ii, 20}. Is there anyway to get to the same point in Zotero? Or any other suggestions as to how could easily make these changes? I have 1300 footnotes so far... Going through them one by one would not be fun.
Thanks everyone!
Jan
This is my first post. I have searched the forum but haven't found an answer to this, I hope there is an easy answer to this. The problem I have is the following: In the book manuscript I'm working on I'm citing quite a number of multi-volume works. In the style guide I'm following, it should look something like: ..., ii, p. 12 or ..., iii, p. 34, or iv, p. 56, etc. However, when I started work on the project I missed out the 'p.' when I entered this into the suffix field. Similarly, there are quite a number of references in the document to "r" and "v" which need to be spelled out as recto and verso.
I could search and replace in Word but that might be dangerous and I would risk losing all the changes if I need to tweak the style I have written for this. In Endnote there was always the feature to 'uncode' the formatting. You would see something like {author@ii, 20}. Is there anyway to get to the same point in Zotero? Or any other suggestions as to how could easily make these changes? I have 1300 footnotes so far... Going through them one by one would not be fun.
Thanks everyone!
Jan
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I'm not sure what you mean about r and v. Did you enter these manually in Word or in Zotero or are they coming from the style?
Are you writing in Word or LibreOffice?
In LO there might a possibility to do the equivalent of uncode with a new plugin, but that won't work for Word.
Search&replace wouldn't be particularly risky (at least not if you were able to use a smart search function, but yes, you'd lose those changes when switching the citation style.
edit: yes, what Aurimas says about field codes in Word could work - I'd test this with a subsection, though - these aren't intended for manual editing.
- Show field codes by pressing Alt+F9
- Open Search and Replace dialog
- Click the More>> button
- Check "Use wildcards"
- In the search field type:
- In the replace field type:
- You'll probably want to do Find Next, Replace instead of Replace All to make sure you don't replace something you don't want to.
- Hide field codes by pressing Alt+F9
- Switch citation styles (probably to another note style) and then back to whatever you were using to force Zotero to refresh citation content
The suffix appears 3 times in each citation. Once in the formatted reference, once in the plain text reference, and once in the suffix field. I think they all have to match or else Zotero freaks out and says that the reference was corrupted. I think it should just re-generate the reference instead of making you re-link it from the library. Especially if the only thing mismatching is the suffix or prefix, but that's a discussion for a different thread.([ivx]{1,4}, )([0-9]{1,5})\1p. \2Alternatively, you can try turning on "Track Changes", then "Replace All", then glancing through the changes and Rejecting anything that was incorrectly replaced.