I downgraded to 3.5, but the latest version does not seem to work. I get an icon on the toolbar, but it does nothing. Also no context menu item. If I use "reload all chrome" funtion of the extension developer extension, the icon disappears completely.
In the error logs, I see "No chrome package registered for chrome://lytero/locale/lytero.dtd". However, this might not be related. I do not have Lytero installed at the moment.
The chrome error, that's a typo. I have reused some Lytero code and left that out.
I don't know what's causing it. I have found another problem: The plugin only works in one window. When you open a second window it's gone. I am asking at zotero-dev.
Perhaps it's related to your problem. However, it still work fine for me on windows and linux.
Would you be so kind and try this: http://www.klubko.net/LyZ-1.1-oldinit.xpi
Many thanks for you help
Petr
Many thanks. That's good news. I have looked at zotfile and apparently it reuses code from lytero (which I am using as well) to create the menus. The author of zotfile already noticed the problem that the plugin is not compatible with lytero. I will learn a bit more about the menus and try to find a way around this.
mronkko,
I have added "Update from BibTeX" function. This should solve your problem. When you checkout your working copy, run this and it will update LyZ database from bibtex file. It can be only used with "zotero" BibTeX key format (i.e. "human unreadable" format).
Cool. I installed the latest version and played around a bit. The funtionality seems to be ready. I am very happy with the plugin as it is.
I have a couple of suggestions on how to improve the usability of the plugin. First, I would remove the "Update from Bibtex" entry and run this funtionality when either the "Update bibtex" is clicked or a new entry would be inserted to the bibtex file.
Second, I would move the LyZ button to the left so that instead of appearing after the search button, it would appear before that.
Third, I would make the settings popup to have a file dialog with browse button instead of a text box for locating lyxpipe and a radiobutton for choosing the key format.
Finally, Mac version of Zotero currently has different style for buttons than windows and linux versions. Making the style consistent would be nice.
Good ideas. I have moved the menu icon. I'll have a look how the buttons are done, it sure looks nicer :)
I will move "Update from BibTeX" as the first step in "Update BibTeX". So it will still be manual.
As for the settings, I thought of that, but I didn't do that for two reasons:
1. user has to set the path in LyX first anyway so copy/paste is easy and
2. as far as I understand, on windows pipes are not actually files so that might be quite confusing for a windows user.
As for the radio button, I had that, but I have removed it as well. I think I leave it like that because I am going to implement synchronization of LyZ/Bibtex/LyX so the user can actually play with the cite keys at his or her will (most importantly, nice cite keys can be used and zotero items can be edited after which all is synchronized including the LyX document). It's actually almost ready. I was reluctant to get into it, but I realized that it's quite simple to implement.
Thanks :) The problem was that we both used the suggestions from Lytero (at least I did ;)), which was forcing the button at the same spot. Zotero overlay, however, has proper identifiers (not sure about before when Lytero was created and that might have been the reason why the Lytero author inserted the buttons the way he did), so it's more appropriate to do it with overlay: <hbox class="toolbar" id="zotero-items-toolbar" align="center"> <toolbarbutton id="lyz-menu-button" tooltiptext="LyZ" type="menu" insertafter="zotero-tb-attachment-add">
The multiple window problem is solved by different init() and include.js: if (!Zotero.Lyz) { const lyzLoader = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.mozIJSSubScriptLoader); lyzLoader.loadSubScript("chrome://lyz/content/lyz.js"); window.addEventListener('load', function(e) { Zotero.Lyz.init(); }, false); } and then you need to call all the window stuff like alerts from the current window by var win = this.wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser"); win.alert(); as was pointed out to me by Dan Stillman. I should stress that I was learning Mozilla and javascript by writing this plugin so there might be better ways to do stuff.
I have one problem with the plugin though. It's not really working with reference which include umlaute such as ü, ö, and ä. The reference is added to the .bib file and the citation to the lyx document. When I try to create the pdf, though, an error occurs. I have to open the .bib file with another application and simply replace the umlaute with the same character even though they look perfectly fine in the .bib file. After having done this, the pdf file is created without any problems.
Chaning to 'Unicode (utf8)' also doesn't help...
I have encountered similar problems, changing the umlauts in Zotero helped me. Apparently the source from which Zotero collected the entry has that character. Can you tell me the source of the citations (where did you saved to Zotero from)? Thanks
All kind of different places. Some are journal articles I 'captured' from pages like www.springerlink.com others are book section where I first got the book from amazon and than changed the item to a book section.
Here is an example:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/6282t3pw0p164758/?p=1c0614ad190f429fb7b43d5f0aba923f&pi=6
By the way, they look perfectly fine when I open the file .bib file. I just replace them with the 'same' character meaning that I can't see any difference between the one ü before and after I replaced it.
Yes they might seem to be the same characters, but in computer they might have different representation. That's why I wanted the source so I can find out what are those, because I had that problem before, but I couldn't reproduce it lately.
I have tried your example, but it works fine (after changing lyx document to utf8). Can you be more specific about the error you saw? In fact the same should happen when you export directly from Zotero. Thanks
I am getting the error below when I don't change to utf 8. But I realized that it works with this one when I am changing to utf8. I had a document yesterday with much much references and in that case it didn't work even when I changed to utf8. I will write again when I can reproduce the error from yesterday.
Thanks!
___________ LaTeX Error: Command \texteuro unavailable in encoding T1.
Description: Realität?}
Your command was ignored. Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command, or <return> to continue without it. ___________
I've been trying to get LyZ to work on windows but LyZ always complains that the pipe does not exist. I activate LyxServer by setting the pipe to \\.\pipe\lyxserver in LyX and set the same value in LyZ but it keeps complaining that the pipe does not exist.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
EDIT: it actually works intermittently. Not sure why sometimes it works and others it doesn't. Rebooting firefox seems to help, as not trying to insert citations from the search window but this is really anecdotal...
Great plugin! Can you update it so that it supports zotero as a tab. you just have to overlay zoteroPane.xul instead of browser.xul (see here: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/zotero_2.1_and_zotero_standalone_for_developers)
I think you still have to include the line to to overlay browser.xul for backward compatibility. These two lines in the chrome.manifest should do the job:
Sorry if I state the obvious: It seems that LyX needs to have the document that should recieve the citation active. Moreover, using the value \\.\pipe\lyxserver in the settings in both LyX and LyZ seemed to help me in this regard.
Mots times LyX will have to be restarted in order for changes to the settings to take effect...
I think I might have been to triggerhappy. I have not used LyZ for some time. Seems I too have the same problem as tpaixao. LyZ 2.0 and LyX 1.6 does not work for me on Firefox 3.6.15 on Windows 7.
I´m also having sevaral probems to export Zotero>Latex (I´m using Windows 7, Zotero 2.1.8, LyX 2.0, WindEdit 6.0, and JabRef2.6):
1) as mentioned, trying to use the exported library directly in a latex compiler (LyX or WinEdit) won´t work. It is necessary to fist open it in JabRef and save. Has this been solved? is anyone working on this?
2) Many of my references are in portuguese, so I have characters such as: "à", "á", "ã", "ç". They all go wrong when Zotero Export´s them. I have to manually correct them in Jabref to the LaTeX equivlents ( " \´a ", " \'a ", " \~a ", "{\c c} ).
3) I tryed LyZ, wich actually includes the refs in Zotero (with the Zotero call name for the ref), but when you compile all references become "(?)". I think this problem is a consequence of problem 1.
I´ve seached several discussions on this and found no answer. I´ve also posted this comment on: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3160/issue-with-bibtex-export/
I´m a big fan of Zotero and I´m helping to develop the Brazilian Citation style (ABNT) in Zotero. But now that I have to submit a papper in Latex, exporting my references from Zotero has become a big hassle, that I´m even considering moving to a JabRef or Mendlye. Please let me know if there are ways to solve this because I really love using Zotero.
Problems 1 and 2 sounds like Unicode issues. Zotero exports as UTF-8 by default-- this might cause trouble for some TeX / LaTeX workflows (XeTeX is UTF-8-friendly, at least). That said, Zotero is perfectly capable of doing all the entity replacements itself-- just set the export character set to something else in the Zotero preferences, and Zotero will make all of the appropriate replacements. There are thousands of people using Zotero in BibTeX-centered workflows-- this does work, as a general proposition.
tks a lot Ajlyon,
1) OK. Exporting and aponing in the Latex compiler (WinEdit) is working. No need for JabRef in the middle.
2) Ok, sounds reasonable. But I don´t know with format supports the portuguese characters. Any ideas (I searched a bit and did not figuere it out). Any ideas? There may also be something with the .bib file. Even when I manually alter it in WinEdit, exchanging for the Latex equivlent (á for \'a), it still ignores thoose characters in the bibliography output.
3) about LyZ, aparently the only thing going wrong is the reference identifier. If in Zotero I do "cite in LyX", it add the LaTeX code. :
\cite{bardelin2004osefeitos} (which are autorYEARfirswordoftitle), and when I compile it shows "(?)"
if I use the regular export bibtex in Zotero, and than open the .bib file the reference identifier is in the format: autor_firswordoftitle_YEAR . So citing:
\cite{bardelin_osefeitos_2004} works fine.
Why does LyZ does that?
Upgrade Storage
In the error logs, I see "No chrome package registered for chrome://lytero/locale/lytero.dtd". However, this might not be related. I do not have Lytero installed at the moment.
I don't know what's causing it. I have found another problem: The plugin only works in one window. When you open a second window it's gone. I am asking at zotero-dev.
Perhaps it's related to your problem. However, it still work fine for me on windows and linux.
Would you be so kind and try this: http://www.klubko.net/LyZ-1.1-oldinit.xpi
Many thanks for you help
Petr
If I open a new window after the first window, the Lyz icon does not appear in this window, as you said.
Could you perhaps try to see Zotero's debug info, perhaps something shows up there.
Thanks.
I have added "Update from BibTeX" function. This should solve your problem. When you checkout your working copy, run this and it will update LyZ database from bibtex file. It can be only used with "zotero" BibTeX key format (i.e. "human unreadable" format).
I have a couple of suggestions on how to improve the usability of the plugin. First, I would remove the "Update from Bibtex" entry and run this funtionality when either the "Update bibtex" is clicked or a new entry would be inserted to the bibtex file.
Second, I would move the LyZ button to the left so that instead of appearing after the search button, it would appear before that.
Third, I would make the settings popup to have a file dialog with browse button instead of a text box for locating lyxpipe and a radiobutton for choosing the key format.
Finally, Mac version of Zotero currently has different style for buttons than windows and linux versions. Making the style consistent would be nice.
http://img63.yfrog.com/i/screenshot20091231at943.png/
I will move "Update from BibTeX" as the first step in "Update BibTeX". So it will still be manual.
As for the settings, I thought of that, but I didn't do that for two reasons:
1. user has to set the path in LyX first anyway so copy/paste is easy and
2. as far as I understand, on windows pipes are not actually files so that might be quite confusing for a windows user.
As for the radio button, I had that, but I have removed it as well. I think I leave it like that because I am going to implement synchronization of LyZ/Bibtex/LyX so the user can actually play with the cite keys at his or her will (most importantly, nice cite keys can be used and zotero items can be edited after which all is synchronized including the LyX document). It's actually almost ready. I was reluctant to get into it, but I realized that it's quite simple to implement.
How did you resolve the window problem and the conflict with zotfile? I am curious because I have the same problem with my zotfile plugin.
The problem was that we both used the suggestions from Lytero (at least I did ;)), which was forcing the button at the same spot. Zotero overlay, however, has proper identifiers (not sure about before when Lytero was created and that might have been the reason why the Lytero author inserted the buttons the way he did), so it's more appropriate to do it with overlay:
<hbox class="toolbar" id="zotero-items-toolbar" align="center">
<toolbarbutton id="lyz-menu-button" tooltiptext="LyZ" type="menu"
insertafter="zotero-tb-attachment-add">
The multiple window problem is solved by different init() and include.js:
if (!Zotero.Lyz) {
const lyzLoader = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.mozIJSSubScriptLoader);
lyzLoader.loadSubScript("chrome://lyz/content/lyz.js");
window.addEventListener('load', function(e) { Zotero.Lyz.init(); }, false);
}
and then you need to call all the window stuff like alerts from the current window by
var win = this.wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
win.alert();
as was pointed out to me by Dan Stillman. I should stress that I was learning Mozilla and javascript by writing this plugin so there might be better ways to do stuff.
I have one problem with the plugin though. It's not really working with reference which include umlaute such as ü, ö, and ä. The reference is added to the .bib file and the citation to the lyx document. When I try to create the pdf, though, an error occurs. I have to open the .bib file with another application and simply replace the umlaute with the same character even though they look perfectly fine in the .bib file. After having done this, the pdf file is created without any problems.
Chaning to 'Unicode (utf8)' also doesn't help...
Here is an example:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/6282t3pw0p164758/?p=1c0614ad190f429fb7b43d5f0aba923f&pi=6
By the way, they look perfectly fine when I open the file .bib file. I just replace them with the 'same' character meaning that I can't see any difference between the one ü before and after I replaced it.
Thanks!
I have tried your example, but it works fine (after changing lyx document to utf8). Can you be more specific about the error you saw? In fact the same should happen when you export directly from Zotero. Thanks
Thanks!
___________
LaTeX Error: Command \texteuro unavailable in encoding T1.
Description:
Realität?}
Your command was ignored.
Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command,
or <return> to continue without it.
___________
I've been trying to get LyZ to work on windows but LyZ always complains that the pipe does not exist. I activate LyxServer by setting the pipe to \\.\pipe\lyxserver in LyX and set the same value in LyZ but it keeps complaining that the pipe does not exist.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
EDIT: it actually works intermittently. Not sure why sometimes it works and others it doesn't. Rebooting firefox seems to help, as not trying to insert citations from the search window but this is really anecdotal...
Thanks in advance
I think you still have to include the line to to overlay browser.xul for backward compatibility. These two lines in the chrome.manifest should do the job:
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://lyz/content/overlay.xul
overlay chrome://zotero/content/zoteroPane.xul chrome://lyz/content/overlay.xul
Thanks for the plugin!!
Sorry if I state the obvious: It seems that LyX needs to have the document that should recieve the citation active. Moreover, using the value \\.\pipe\lyxserver in the settings in both LyX and LyZ seemed to help me in this regard.
Mots times LyX will have to be restarted in order for changes to the settings to take effect...
;)Frode
I think I might have been to triggerhappy. I have not used LyZ for some time. Seems I too have the same problem as tpaixao. LyZ 2.0 and LyX 1.6 does not work for me on Firefox 3.6.15 on Windows 7.
;)Frode
1) as mentioned, trying to use the exported library directly in a latex compiler (LyX or WinEdit) won´t work. It is necessary to fist open it in JabRef and save. Has this been solved? is anyone working on this?
2) Many of my references are in portuguese, so I have characters such as: "à", "á", "ã", "ç". They all go wrong when Zotero Export´s them. I have to manually correct them in Jabref to the LaTeX equivlents ( " \´a ", " \'a ", " \~a ", "{\c c} ).
3) I tryed LyZ, wich actually includes the refs in Zotero (with the Zotero call name for the ref), but when you compile all references become "(?)". I think this problem is a consequence of problem 1.
I´ve seached several discussions on this and found no answer. I´ve also posted this comment on: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3160/issue-with-bibtex-export/
I´m a big fan of Zotero and I´m helping to develop the Brazilian Citation style (ABNT) in Zotero. But now that I have to submit a papper in Latex, exporting my references from Zotero has become a big hassle, that I´m even considering moving to a JabRef or Mendlye. Please let me know if there are ways to solve this because I really love using Zotero.
It would be great if I could get LyZ to work.
1) OK. Exporting and aponing in the Latex compiler (WinEdit) is working. No need for JabRef in the middle.
2) Ok, sounds reasonable. But I don´t know with format supports the portuguese characters. Any ideas (I searched a bit and did not figuere it out). Any ideas? There may also be something with the .bib file. Even when I manually alter it in WinEdit, exchanging for the Latex equivlent (á for \'a), it still ignores thoose characters in the bibliography output.
3) about LyZ, aparently the only thing going wrong is the reference identifier. If in Zotero I do "cite in LyX", it add the LaTeX code. :
\cite{bardelin2004osefeitos} (which are autorYEARfirswordoftitle), and when I compile it shows "(?)"
if I use the regular export bibtex in Zotero, and than open the .bib file the reference identifier is in the format: autor_firswordoftitle_YEAR . So citing:
\cite{bardelin_osefeitos_2004} works fine.
Why does LyZ does that?