Custom translator for notes?

darren.brierton · August 15, 2024

Is it possible to write a custom export translator for notes, in the same way that you can for bibliography items?

I've been searching these forums and the docs but I couldn't find anything.

TIA.

Best, Darren

schoeneh · October 21, 2024

Hi Darren,

EDIT: There is a much better solution, thanks to AbeJellinek.
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I had the same question and got a quick-and-dirty solution working:
You need to edit the built-in translator “Note Markdown.js”
(on Windows located in “C:\Users\$USER\Zotero\$YOUR_PROFILE\translators”)

I changed the name of the original doExport() function to “function orig_doExport()” and simply added my own doExport().

I'm no longer able to convert notes to Markdown, but I don't need this functionality anyway.

Best, Henrik

darren.brierton · October 21, 2024

Thanks Henrik!

schoeneh · October 21, 2024

Addendum:
You could also edit the translator "Note HTML.js" and keep the Markdown-translator.
Both are hard-coded, according to https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/a2ed2c8b12e18ce8f55aac564704dbee92e90e0f/chrome/content/zotero/fileInterface.js#L73.

AbeJellinek · October 22, 2024

No need to edit Note HTML. You can add a new translator and set "configOptions" to { "noteTranslator": true } (see this line).

schoeneh · October 23, 2024

Thanks AbeJellinek, that's a much better solution!
I can't believe I just needed to look 5 lines up...

After adding this option and restarting Zotero, everything simply works:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6266655/uo96fdgg40l7stebzrqu.png