cursor in fields when editing after insertion of citation
advance apologies, in case this has been posted here before, I didn't really know what keyword to look for.
when I insert a citation with the OOo plugin (2.0a2; OOo 3.1) and I continue typing my sentence immediately afterwards, the cursor will automatically be placed outside the greyed field (using fields, not bookmarks) and there is no problem I can just type along. But when I later go back and I want to change the sentence and, say, want to add a comma right after the citation, I cannot get the cursor placed outside the field, the comma will be placed inside of it (and disapper with the next refresh). There are a number of other cases where this problem comes up. Say, I have forgotten to put in a blank space between the citation and the next word and I later want to insert one etc., or also when I rearrange sentences... In fact I have to deal with this not infrequently. Is this a known issue that is being dealt with or is there a work aroung?
Thanks for any pointers to previous discussions of this, should they exist.
when I insert a citation with the OOo plugin (2.0a2; OOo 3.1) and I continue typing my sentence immediately afterwards, the cursor will automatically be placed outside the greyed field (using fields, not bookmarks) and there is no problem I can just type along. But when I later go back and I want to change the sentence and, say, want to add a comma right after the citation, I cannot get the cursor placed outside the field, the comma will be placed inside of it (and disapper with the next refresh). There are a number of other cases where this problem comes up. Say, I have forgotten to put in a blank space between the citation and the next word and I later want to insert one etc., or also when I rearrange sentences... In fact I have to deal with this not infrequently. Is this a known issue that is being dealt with or is there a work aroung?
Thanks for any pointers to previous discussions of this, should they exist.
any news on this?
I'm writing a lot right now, and I have this problem often ...
If you really can't select the position immediately outside the field by any means it sounds like an OpenOffice bug, rather than something Zotero specific (I'm happy to be corrected on this if I'm wrong).
I don't know enough about this to guess about the root of this problem or describe the technical details to OOo. I seem to remember, though, there was a discussion about similar issues before the recent OOo plugin was released.
* when you place a citation, you will be unable to type after the citation without expanding the field. It does it regardless if you continue typing right away after placing the citation or if you place the cursor just after the citation.
* normal OOo fields don't behave like this (tried with the date field, insert->fields->date)
* workaround for this bug is tedious, as you need to go to the next paragraph/segment of text, insert space/comma there and press backspace before the space/comma to go to the place after the citation and then use cursor left to skip the space/comma, and hit enter to make the paragraph division as it was. Also you lose any formatting in the next paragraph as it needs to be merged to the current one temporarily. In case of a heading you need to apply the correct heading style again.
Should this be reported as OOo bug? Also, is there a way in OOo to edit those fields in "raw" mode so that it would be easier to insert text after them? Ie. [1] would be displayed as <zotero=xyz>1</zotero>? I remember that word used to have this kind of feature, right?
Edit: forgot to say my plugin versions which are: 2.0b7.4 for Firefox and 3.0a5 for the OOo plugin.
BR,
Sampsa
Can this please be fixed?
Thanks.
It's quite bothersome as one must always type a space, move the cursor back one position and /then/ insert a citation, rather than simply inserting the citation and continuing to type.
To reiterate on the bug: the integration plugin seems not to close the field after inserting the citation, such that after inserting a citation further text entry is a part of the citation, and is deleted after a refresh or citation change.
Edit: The above version information and persistence of the bug is correct, however the exact behavior is actually as described elsewhere in this thread.
It's still pretty irritating...
Here is how you add the keyboard commands:
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_shortcuts