Rich Text in Titles
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This all works splendidly on the drawing board. Now that 2.1 beta is out, we'll find out how the feature copes with real-world formatting requirements ...
I have noticed, however, that the word-processor integration seems to be lagging behind the processor in dealing with this. A book item with <i> tags is processed in the "Zotero Reference Text pane" but not in either Word or OpenOffice.
For example... in the Title field,
Freedom of the Will<i>. In </i>The Works of Jonathan Edwards
Is displayed in the "Zotero Reference Text pane" as:
Freedom of the Will. In The Works of Jonathan Edwards
But in Word (3.1) and OpenOffice (3.5a1) it is displayed as:
Freedom of the Will. In The Works of Jonathan Edwards
Is anyone else experiencing this?
So with that cleared, back to the real issue - this has come up at least once before, I think, but I'm not sure with what results... anyone can test this in a branch xpi to see if recent updates have happened to fix this?
I'm importing from Springerlink - which is failing using the DOI importer so I'm using Springlerlink's "export citation" as BibTex feature to export the citation and open it in cb2Bib, copying to clipboard - then use Zotero 2.1.8's "Import from Clipboard".
The BibTex for the title is this:
title = {River Red Gum (& lt;i& gt;Eucalyptus camaldulensis& lt;/i& gt; Dehnh.)},
(I insertered a space in & lt; etc so this forum software didnt convert it)
In Zotero I've tried leaving the title with tags that look like & lt;i& gt; or manually editing them to <i> </i>...
In each case the tags are displayed literally in zotero and in MS Word - ie I see the tags not the italics.
I found a few items in this forum from 2008,2007 but got the impression from dowens's post above that this should work.
Where am I going wrong? How do you get an italicized species name in a title? with 2.1.8?
To see if the data is the problem, manually create a new item and write in the tags (in unicode - i.e. <i> and </i>.
To see if Word is the problem, see how it looks in the test pane:
chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul
- hand entering a new ref works OK and looks good in word with italics displayed.
- editing the BibTex to change & lt;i& gt; to <i> worked also - the difference this time is I blew away the bibliography and inserted again.
- chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul didnt show any italics at all (markup not displayed either)
..and last but not least ....
Instead of exporting BibTex from Springerlink I found I could export as ProCite and Zotero jumped into action and imported the citation itself with the markup correct as <i></i> - no need for me to be messing with BibTex at all now!
That will probably happen eventually, but there are no immediate plans to work on it.
If there are things other than bold and italics that would need to be in there, markup might make more sense, but I don't see any advantage to markup otherwise.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/make-text-superscript-or-subscript-HP005189455.aspx
Superscript: Press CTRL+SHIFT+=
Subscript: Press CTRL+=
http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/
Make text superscript Control-Command-plus sign (+)
Make text subscript Control-Command-minus sign (-)
That leaves just "small caps".
And as I noted above, we can also put these in a context menu when text is selected.