When will v1.5 be out of the developmental stage?
Hi,
I'm wondering when v1.5 be released from the developmental stage. I'm about to start writing my dissertation and would like to use Zotero v1.5 and Word 2008 for Mac OS X (Leopard), and I noticed your time line indicates it should be fully released by now. However, everything else on your site indicates that v1.5 is still in development which makes me hesitant to use on such an important project.
Thanks in advance for your response, and if you have any other suggestions on the best way to use Zotero on a Mac for making large documents like dissertations, that would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
I'm wondering when v1.5 be released from the developmental stage. I'm about to start writing my dissertation and would like to use Zotero v1.5 and Word 2008 for Mac OS X (Leopard), and I noticed your time line indicates it should be fully released by now. However, everything else on your site indicates that v1.5 is still in development which makes me hesitant to use on such an important project.
Thanks in advance for your response, and if you have any other suggestions on the best way to use Zotero on a Mac for making large documents like dissertations, that would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Using a latex environment is another alternative I'm thinking of right now, but that would require some additional learning effort (especially for a larger project like a dissertation it might be worth it, though).
UPDATE- I got an email back from someone at Zotero and, apparently, v1.5 will move from preview to beta in about one or two weeks.
I tried using Zotero (v1.0.9) for a recent paper but found the Word integration to be quite buggy. For example, references that are sorted numerically in the text were displayed in an unusual format if I made any kind of additions/subtractions/changes to the references. More specifically, something that should be displayed as (6,7,10-14) would be displayed as (6,10-14,7) or some other strange way.
Hopefully these issues have been resolved in v1.5 because I would prefer to use Zotero for everything rather than transferring to EndNote during the manuscript writing process.
LyX also requires "a latex distribution", there's links on the LyX-page to the downloads, I've tried installing both MikTeX (Windows) and MacTeX (for Mac), and they're really simple to install.
For LyX there has even been some effort to facilitat integration with Zotero.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/537/lyx-support/
Bruce is 100% right on when not to use LaTeX - in PoliSci I know a decent amount of scholars who alternate between LaTeX and Word depending on co-authors and the general audience they're writing for.
I think learning a bit of LaTeX is worth it even if its just because you'll be able to produce _way_ cooler (and by cooler I mean slick, professional looking, uniformly lay-outed run on any computer anywhere) slides. (LyX also does slides I believe)