Has anybody made a "blank" style? I'd need one

mmutka
I'm writing a document with OpenOffice and I need references. I can't do them with the OpenOffice bibliography database tool, because the fields are so short I cannot enter all necessary information. I cannot use bibus because it simply won't start up on my computer. It seems that Zotero is my only option.

However, my document is not in English, and as a result, none of the existing Zotero styles seems satisfactory. Has anybody written a blank Zotero style in which I could just write the entry as one field the exactly the way I want it to be? Or does someone know where I could find such a style?
  • sybille
    There is some documentation about creating citation styles here:
    http://dev.zotero.org/creating_citation_styles
  • mmutka
    Whoops... I was mistaken. I thought I had changed the style when in fact I hadn't, and as a result, I always used the same one style which I didn't like. Now I found a style that suits me.

    Thanks anyway!
  • sybille
    Glad things are working out for you. :)
  • mmutka
    Unfortunately it seems they aren't.

    I would need to enter the string "Decision_problem" into a certain field. However, if I do so, I get "Decision[i]problem[/i]" (the word "problem" is in italics), and I can't get around this problem. I need to enter all information into one field because otherwise no Zotero style formats the information the way I want it.
  • sybille
    You can use the editable preview to see how different styles are formatting the various fields: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1298/?Focus=5387#Comment_5387
  • dstillman
    I would need to enter the string "Decision_problem" into a certain field. However, if I do so, I get "Decision[i]problem[/i]" (the word "problem" is in italics), and I can't get around this problem.
    If you're just talking about the formatting within OOo (as opposed to, say, the style output from csledit.xul), I believe there was previously a hack in the word processor plugins that would italicize text between (or, apparently, after) underscores. The next version of Zotero and the plugin adds GUI support for formatting text, and so I imagine that hack has also been removed.

    So, there's a good chance this will stop happening once you upgrade to the next released version.

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