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• @scheydec I think there two separate things being discussed here. I'm going to assume you have all your items in Zotero in sentence case, some of those have no language filled out, some have an "engl-ish" language (american, british, canadian, engli…

  in Not capitalizing correctly in Chicago MOS, Word Comment by emilianoeheyns February 14, 2020
• So you want an export that results in multiple (non-attachment) files? That's not possible. Zotero exports can generate one main file (usually text) and save the attachments that are in scope.

  in Folder and Subfolder Export as .html or other .pdf file Comment by emilianoeheyns February 14, 2020
• There is something equivalent sorta-in Zotero -- if you install BBT and enable the quality report the export will have comments about missing fields. The QR is pretty basic for bibtex (not much is documented on what constitutes a valid item in bibte…

  in Can zotero identify missing required fields for the entries? Comment by emilianoeheyns February 14, 2020
• By default, yes.

  in Not capitalizing correctly in Chicago MOS, Word Comment by emilianoeheyns February 14, 2020
• Then there's probably something fubar about my setup. Not at all unlikely.

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 13, 2020
• @depswa I've done my best on the UI (which means it's pretty janky), but give the xpi at https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-folder-import/issues/1 a go; after installation, select the green plus icon above the item list, and select "Add files from…

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 13, 2020
• Meaning I get https://imgur.com/a/esot0eP

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 13, 2020
• @dstillman when I try to "Store Copy of a File..." with a shell script (.sh), it tries to open the script.

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 13, 2020
• Try https://gist.github.com/eea40128817c4e7df686c2bcc0db26b4

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 12, 2020
• Is this in the Zotero desktop client, or the web library? I can't reproduce this behavior in the desktop client.

  in Flaws in Zotero? Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• This is called from addAttachmentFromDialog in zoteroPane.js, right? I take it the mode is the flag in question? That would still preclude this happening from the same picker if I'm reading this right -- the available modes are /** @const {Integer…

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• What is the difference between the two in mendeley btw?

  in ignore field on BBT import Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• I'd rather not add features that don't address an existing use-case. If jabref does the job easily, that seems like a good option.

  in ignore field on BBT import Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• Not currently possible. I am willing to consider it, but I'd prefer it if you can open an issue on github with a sample file that has these fields.

  in ignore field on BBT import Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• @dstillman I see them now. But in that selection dialog, selecting a folder and clicking "open" just navigates to that folder in the picker. It looks like file-pickers and dir pickers are different dialogs. I also can't multi-select files + dirs the…

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• That menu is only enabled when the current item is editable, so it wouldn't work as-is for importing a folder of attachments. Maybe drag and drop is the best interface for this? That would seem to me to be a deliberate action.

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 11, 2020
• Posted almost simultaneously :) I'll just do a quick plugin first, if that works, I can look at converting it to a PR. Suggestions on where to put it in the menus? File menu?

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 10, 2020
• On the other hand, a plugin that does this shouldn't be much work. Probably preferable. I'll give it a shot.

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 10, 2020
• Meh, I'm willing to give it a shot. BibTeX would be easier, but it'd mean dummy entries to hold the attachments. I think RDF would allow top-level attachments. Another option would be a simple import translator which imports the output of "dir /s /…

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 10, 2020
• I'm thinking it should be possible to create an RDF file that would on import recreate the folder structure.

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 10, 2020
• @depswa what platform are you on?

  in Create Zotero library using disk directory structure Comment by emilianoeheyns February 10, 2020
• Oh yeah, for one-offs you could just use Zotero manually. If it's not too high-volume, you can automate the import-export using the stuff I use for my test suite (https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/tree/master/test/fixtures/debug-br…

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 7, 2020
• There's also https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/tree/master/test/fixtures/debug-bridge. It's basically mozrepl but you can send it JS snippets over http and get results back by returning anything that's JSON-serializable. The README …

  in Limited proof of concept "CSV to Zotero" import Comment by emilianoeheyns February 7, 2020
• It depends on what you mean by "from the command line". BBT can be driven using HTTP; my python test setup uses this to run the test suite, but it requires Zotero to be running, and that's not what people usually mean by command line. Since 5.2 it …

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 7, 2020
• That checkbox has since disappeared, sorry. BBT has enough (too many, really) preferences of its own, it shouldn't take on managing prefs outside its own scope.

  in show all items including the sub-folders one Comment by emilianoeheyns February 7, 2020
• Plus you forego the problems of sentence-case vs title-case.

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 6, 2020
• There is no way to access BBT citekeys via Zotero's server API that I know of (though this is the part that I may be wrong about) You can sometimes sorta get them -- if they are "pinned", that is, they're in the extra field as Citation Key: thePinn…

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 6, 2020
• It's not just that it can use it, it's the primary path for most (but not all) pandoc output; for most conversions, if you offer it bibtex, it first converts that to CSL, and that conversion is not lossless. It mostly works reasonably well, but if y…

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 6, 2020
• Well there you go, option #3 I wasn't aware of. I haven't played with citation.js so I don't have an opinion on the conversion it offers. I do know that conversion between CSL (which is what can be extracted from a word doc with zotero references) …

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 6, 2020
• As @adamsmith points out, that's not produced by the CSL style, so either I'm mistaken that ref-extractor uses the CSL style (it could technically use an online Zotero translator server, but I see no evidence of that, and it claims everything happen…

  in Porting Word citations to latex with \cite{} Comment by emilianoeheyns February 6, 2020
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