Upgrade StorageImport from Clipboard Verbatim (eg \'e not é)
I have a question that is related to [https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/63366/importing-bibtex-with-italics-superscript-and-subscript], but is slightly different.
I use BetterBibTeX, using Zotero for referencing my maths papers. This means my titles sometimes have things like $-signs in them. I use the tag #LaTeX to make Zotero output verbatim the title (eg $Z^2$ is outputted exactly as this, not Z with a superscript 2). However, for *importing* from the clipboard, this does not work quite as I would like. Consider the following example bibtex data. (This is a real example of one that I'm using. I use MathSciNet to get my bibdata.)
@article {MR2992954,
AUTHOR = {Lladser, Manuel E. and Poto\v{c}nik, Primo\v{z} and \v{S}ir\'{a}\v{n}, Jozef and
Wilson, Mark C.},
TITLE = {Random {C}ayley digraphs of diameter 2 and given degree},
JOURNAL = {Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.},
FJOURNAL = {Discrete Mathematics \& Theoretical Computer Science. DMTCS.},
VOLUME = {14},
YEAR = {2012},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {83--90},
ISSN = {1365-8050},
MRCLASS = {05C80 (05C12 05C25)},
MRNUMBER = {2992954},
}
When I copy this and then do "import from clipboard", Zotero changes some stuff. For example, it puts the accents over the letters in the people's names -- and not always correctly, eg writing "Potǒcnik". (Additionally, in the FJOURNAL entry, it removes the \ from \&, but I don't actually use this data at the moment.)
I would like Zotero to input **verbatim** the title and authors. (It already outputs verbatim.) Any advice would be most appreciated! :)
I use BetterBibTeX, using Zotero for referencing my maths papers. This means my titles sometimes have things like $-signs in them. I use the tag #LaTeX to make Zotero output verbatim the title (eg $Z^2$ is outputted exactly as this, not Z with a superscript 2). However, for *importing* from the clipboard, this does not work quite as I would like. Consider the following example bibtex data. (This is a real example of one that I'm using. I use MathSciNet to get my bibdata.)
@article {MR2992954,
AUTHOR = {Lladser, Manuel E. and Poto\v{c}nik, Primo\v{z} and \v{S}ir\'{a}\v{n}, Jozef and
Wilson, Mark C.},
TITLE = {Random {C}ayley digraphs of diameter 2 and given degree},
JOURNAL = {Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.},
FJOURNAL = {Discrete Mathematics \& Theoretical Computer Science. DMTCS.},
VOLUME = {14},
YEAR = {2012},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {83--90},
ISSN = {1365-8050},
MRCLASS = {05C80 (05C12 05C25)},
MRNUMBER = {2992954},
}
When I copy this and then do "import from clipboard", Zotero changes some stuff. For example, it puts the accents over the letters in the people's names -- and not always correctly, eg writing "Potǒcnik". (Additionally, in the FJOURNAL entry, it removes the \ from \&, but I don't actually use this data at the moment.)
I would like Zotero to input **verbatim** the title and authors. (It already outputs verbatim.) Any advice would be most appreciated! :)
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Verbatim import is no longer possible in BBT; it used to be possible in the 4.x series, but the new parser doesn't support it. The \ before \& being removed is part of this; \& "means" & in BibTeX. Math import suffers the same issue.
And for maths formulae, I did see that before, but for some reason I used #LaTeX. There was a specific reason -- the above postscript didn't work in all circumstances -- but I forget which!
I've submitted an error report, but just before I post on the forum, let me check one thing: I was editing an old auto-update .bib file; might this not accept the new "export as plain-text"?
In fact, to answer my own question, I've just seen that I need to tick it there also! Although, even though I've ticked that, it still outputs "Namé"