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• Starting with a group library from the beginning would clearly be best, but sometimes you start dabbling in a field on your own, without foreseeing that it will lead you into collaboration. I expect it's all manageable with good habits on the u…

  in A way to map group library item keys to My Library keys? Comment by Christian Moe October 15, 2013
• Yes, clearly. If I move a well-defined part of my library into a Group, and expect all further editing and additions to be made in the group library, might it actually make sense to delete the original items from my personal library, to keep things …

  in A way to map group library item keys to My Library keys? Comment by Christian Moe October 15, 2013
• Thanks for clarifying -- I hadn't thought it through, but now I see that this should be much less of an issue than I imagined. So different libraries can be freely mixed. Others can make use of references to my personal library thanks to the embedde…

  in A way to map group library item keys to My Library keys? Comment by Christian Moe October 14, 2013
• Right, thanks. But then, what if other people insert something from the group library, something that originally stems from my collection, and send the document back to me...? I guess we'd have to try it and see, I don't have much experience with th…

  in A way to map group library item keys to My Library keys? Comment by Christian Moe October 14, 2013
• Thanks, Frank! With the update, I get my author-date citations and reference list exactly as I want them. It even handles a whole class of cases that I failed to mention: when the "l" in "al-" is assimilated to the following consonant, e.g…

  in Arabic names with the particle al- Comment by Christian Moe March 23, 2013
• Thanks for the impressively fast and helpful response! With the patch, Zotero now handles hyphens and sort order as desired. That leaves case. I've had a look through my bookshelves. At the beginning of a reference-list entry, the most common p…

  in Arabic names with the particle al- Comment by Christian Moe March 23, 2013
• Wonderful! Let me know in this thread if anything is unclear. I should note that opinions and style requirements differ, particularly on the use of case, so there may not be one appropriate rule. The hyphenation is a bigger deal. A note st…

  in Arabic names with the particle al- Comment by Christian Moe March 22, 2013
• Thanks for the help, the problem is solved. Sorry about the noise. The debug output ended with "zotero(3): Updating installed translators from translators.zip" Reminded me I had some unsound tweaked versions of the BibTeX.js translator …

  in Firefox hanging on startup after 2.0.8 update Comment by Christian Moe September 14, 2010
• Half an hour.

  in Firefox hanging on startup after 2.0.8 update Comment by Christian Moe September 14, 2010