Upgrade StorageMerging adjacent citation fields
A quick search on the forum yielded nothing, so here's my question: How hard would it be to enable the merging of citation fields in Word?
Sometimes you start out a paragraph with separate citations and after rewriting you decide its better to group them all together. Right now this involves re-adding all of the citations individually in a single citation field, which is nontrivial especially for large libraries and/or in a document with loads of citations (searching takes time). (Unmerging is less hard, because it's easy to copy a citation field and delete those that don't belong.)
My dream is that one would simply place the fields next to each other and upon the next refresh, the Z plugin would sense there was no text in between (except maybe spaces) and propose to merge them into one citation field. Any chance sth like this could be implemented?
Sometimes you start out a paragraph with separate citations and after rewriting you decide its better to group them all together. Right now this involves re-adding all of the citations individually in a single citation field, which is nontrivial especially for large libraries and/or in a document with loads of citations (searching takes time). (Unmerging is less hard, because it's easy to copy a citation field and delete those that don't belong.)
My dream is that one would simply place the fields next to each other and upon the next refresh, the Z plugin would sense there was no text in between (except maybe spaces) and propose to merge them into one citation field. Any chance sth like this could be implemented?
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markWoops turns out my search was too quick. There is a relevant thread here: Single to multiple citations in Word plugin. Looks like this is not in the cards.
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mebbertThis request has been around since 2008 with a seemingly large interest. Not sure why it hasn't been implemented yet.