Upgrade StorageIn-line citations have space before and after number
Hi,
After restarting my computer and re-opening the document I was just working on in Word with Zotero plugin, Zotero asked me to re-download and install the Zotero for Word plugin. After doing this, now my in-line, superscripted citations all have a space before and after the number. It did not change the citations that were already in the document prior to the restart--they have no spaces. If I remove the spaces manually, the citations stop syncing with refresh.
I checked the citation style I am using, and do not see scripting to add in spaces around the number there, so I'm guessing it is a bug independent of the style format.
I am working on a Mac (just updated to 15.0.1)
Zotero version 7.0.8-beta.1+e754fa0c4 - I am not sure if it automatically upgraded the Zotero version from 6 when I restarted.
Word version 16.89.1 (for Mac)
After restarting my computer and re-opening the document I was just working on in Word with Zotero plugin, Zotero asked me to re-download and install the Zotero for Word plugin. After doing this, now my in-line, superscripted citations all have a space before and after the number. It did not change the citations that were already in the document prior to the restart--they have no spaces. If I remove the spaces manually, the citations stop syncing with refresh.
I checked the citation style I am using, and do not see scripting to add in spaces around the number there, so I'm guessing it is a bug independent of the style format.
I am working on a Mac (just updated to 15.0.1)
Zotero version 7.0.8-beta.1+e754fa0c4 - I am not sure if it automatically upgraded the Zotero version from 6 when I restarted.
Word version 16.89.1 (for Mac)
Mac
Zotero 7.0.8-beta.1+e754fa0c4
Word Version 16.89.1
Does a screenshot of a new document help? I'm using Nature style and just tried out on a new document -- now there is no space after the superscripted number (good), but still space before the number.
Went back to my older documents using the same style before yesterday's reinstall, no space either before or after superscripted numbers.
In a new document, I see the same thing as @CherryChengchenLi -- there is a space before the superscripted in text citation, but not after it.
If I press Add/Edit Citation on those citations, it works as normally. But if I remove the space manually to fix to the desired format, it does give that dialog.
Step-by-step:
1. Write some text, and place cursor where I want to add the in-text citation.
2. Select Add/Edit Citation while Zotero 7 app is open.
3. Select the desired style format (I typically use a custom one based off of the Nature style, but the problem also exists with the Nature style)
4. Select the citation to add and select OK.
5. Citation is inserted into the document as was described, and modeled by @CherryChengchenLi.
However, in an existing document with citations already existing, there are still some problems.
1. When I changed between citation styles, it updated to remove most, but not all of the unexpected spaces. When trying to fix the ones with a space by removing and readding it (with or without letting it refresh citations between these steps), it enters it again with a space before and after the citation.
2. New citations add spaces before the number, but only in the middle of a paragraph. At the end of a paragraph, it works as expected. But if I copy/paste that citation to the desired location and refresh citations to fix number ordering, it goes back to adding the space.
1) Copy pasting same citation from a different document doesn't fix the problem.
2) The document that had the citation copied has gray brackets ([]) around the number. Refreshing does not fix the way it appears.
Edit 1: No, in fact it is not true. I am digging into. It worked in a new document. I then edited an existing one (edited by others also), which had all the superscripts with a leading space. I had to replace all, because while the numbers were detected (a new reference got the correct numbering and was added to the bibliography), there were not editable (selecting the number and hitting add/edit citation just showed an empty citation bar). I noticed that if I wanted to insert a citation right after a ) or a ", the new citation I added to replace the previous always suddenly showed a leading space. Then, I came to an error when I tried to add a citation between two brackets (), right after an equation object. An error message popped up ("Zotero experienced an error updating your document. Would you like to view troubleshooting instructions?"). I clicked "No" because I knew what happened. Despite this error, all the citations seems to be correct (no leading space). But when I tried again the Nature style in new document, I got a leading space in all the citations, when there was none prior to the edition of my existing document.
Edit 2: Exiting Word seems to help. Inserting a citation in Nature format in a new, empty document works as expected (no leading/trailing space). I'll try to reproduce with an equation object inside parenthesis.
Restarted Word -> Zotero -> Document Preferences -> select "Nature" -> inline citations automatically updated.
Now there is no leading space before the inline citation numbers (good)!
Mac
Zotero 7.0.7 (don't think this is the most updated version though)
Word Version 16.89.1 for mac
Generating an error in the existing does not trigger the behavior reported earlier (i.e., leading space in a blank, new document), as far as I can see.