Automatically Superscript Citations in Word 2007
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For a normal entered "[", that works.
I've just tested this with Ooo 3.1 and Zotero 2.0b7.4 using the IEEE style
find&replace is a workaround - since, as you note, it makes the citations static, it should be done right before sending off a document. I don't have time to test this with the style you are using - have you tried selecting the item you're looking for as I suggest above? Also, you could remove the field codes before searching. (Once again, of course, only just before sending off the file - and then saving it in a separate file form the document containing the full zotero citation information).
<layout delimiter="," vertical-align="sup">
<text prefix="[" suffix="]" variable="citation-number" />
</layout>
</citation>
An additional issue, though, is that the IEEE style guide requires that a range of reference numbers (1 through 3, say) be rendered with braces around the individual numbers, and a range delimiter between them, like [1]-[3]. Logically, that looks like it should be the result from your code, but instead we currently get [1-3]. When it becomes available, the new processor will produce [1]-[3] (all superscripted) when the braces are on the text element, and [1-3] (all superscripted) when the braces are on the layout element.
Here's a test fixture that exercises both cases.
The layout element is an exception, both because you generally want all decorations on the layout tag to apply to its affixes, and because layout is the outermost rendering tag, and therefore cannot itself be wrapped in a group to achieve more aggressive decoration behavior. The current processor treats layout as an ordinary element (similar to cs:names or cs:text), and that's the normal behavior in that case.