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• When the there is an abbreviation, it has periods after each abbreviated word except the last one.Example link? It should import with all periods that are present, assuming that the underlying data from PubMed is good.No when I cite the library ent…

  in Pubmed imports: Journal abbreviations Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• Right, but what is the full path to those files?

  in Importing EndNote files into Zotero Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• Just enter the year as 1996 (with no letters appended), choose your preferred style, and cite the documents as normal. Both the Harvard reference format 1style and the Chicago author-date style will automatically disambiguate for you.

  in Library entries with same year and author in Harvard 1 Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• I don't think scaffold works w/ the beta version. The translators are kept as separate javascript files, rather than in the database now.

  in Bibtex export Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• What if the attribute values would be URIs (e.g. pointing to the periodicals data incubator project resources)?I think that should work & is similar to what I proposed.

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• CSL has the ability to disambiguate author/date citations in various ways. What style are you using, how does it currently handle disambiguation, and how do you think it should?

  in Library entries with same year and author in Harvard 1 Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• Depending on how those citations are formatted, the rtf scan feature in the beta version of zotero may be worth a try.Sounds like I should drop the bibliographic references directly from the library to word instead of linking Zotero to the citations…

  in Using Zotero with a large (previously) fully referenced document Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• preferences->advanced->check "display character encoding option on export" On export, choose any encoding except for UTF-8. (Note that {\"u} or {\"{u}} are the proper encodings. Zotero does not yet use them, uses \"{u}.)

  in Bibtex export bug(?) using author name with umlaut? Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• I don't think the abbreviation attribute would work: some abbreviation lists are very journal-specific, so there'd be a huge number of values that attribute could take on. I'm also relatively unconcerned about legal hassles: there are multiple open…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• What do you mean by "fully referenced?" What format are the citations in & is there already a bibliography or not? Zotero has relatively limited means of converting legacy documents right now & you'll have to do much of it by hand.

  in Using Zotero with a large (previously) fully referenced document Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• Presently, there is no way to have section-specific formatting like this. You may maintain each section as a separate file to work around this.

  in Repeating Full Bibliographic Information in New Chapters Comment by noksagt August 14, 2009
• I agree with Bruce that per-journal abbreviations don't belong in CSL markupWhy? If there are style-specific formatting guidelines, I'd argue that CSL is the best place for them! Further, you wrote later about the possibility of implementing subst…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• I don't actually think, though, that this has much of any benefit for readers (I find it really annoying to have to look up acronyms, for example)Agreed that they are a pain to "newcomers" who don't recognize the abbreviations. But abbreviation is …

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• I'd have to check on BibLaTeX....Nothing particularly clever. You can do many of the same things as in BibTeX (I also forgot that you can use a TeX command for your journal name & define these commands in your .tex file). They've added a 'shor…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• What does bibtex do with that btw?Nothing fantastic. Some people use bunch of '@string' statements in their .bib file as a sort-of preamble to automatically assign text for their standardized publication names. These statements are replaced & …

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• That may be, but it's a ridiculous state of affairs; almost comical that we have to worry about these stupid details.I used to feel the same way (based mostly on all of the flat databases out there). But, far from being "stupid details," I realized…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• I thought periods vs. no periods in abbreviations are going to be supported, though, right?Yes. But this is trivial and insufficient.For everything else - are Journal abbreviations really style dependent?Yes. See http://authors.iop.org/atom/help.ns…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• Your slashes are mixed (forward and backward) in these examples — are they also like that in your RIS file? I think FF can handle either, but they need to be used consistently.file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings is perfectly valid in FF on Windows…

  in Importing EndNote files into Zotero Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• But this is a great example on why we must be smarter about abbreviations: abbreviations are style-specific! If rfrench only writes for ApJ, there'd be no problem. But, as soon as he writes for another journal, he'll have to update all of his abb…

  in Text substitution Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• Haven't seen a crash before, but you might try the same workaround as in: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6981/opening-bibtex-file-instead-of-importing/

  in Report error 1698315904 Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• As above, you can NOT obtain your desired format with the current version of zotero. Support for that will be in a future version.

  in how to reference like [1]-[5] in zotero Comment by noksagt August 13, 2009
• Try to export a single record. If that record does not resemble http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_sample_02.asp then you are not exporting an RIS file. If the single record does look like an RIS file, but does not import successfully, post i…

  in Importing from endnote - ris file issue Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• The zotero database is not backwards compatible. You will have to restore it from your backup or start with a fresh database. If you did not make a backup, you may retain some (but not all) of your data by exporting it & then importing it into…

  in Getting back to version 1 Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• Please give an example of a record that failed to import after you changed the research notes line to use N1. For 2, have you changed your links to use the file:// syntax? e.g. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/70/2/importing-endnote-files-into-z…

  in Importing EndNote files into Zotero Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• Well, the site has empty 'N1' tags & empty RIS tags aren't really good behavior. However, the Zotero high wire translator should be fixed such that it doesn't trip over empty tags. Ticket created: https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1539

  in Ensuring DOIs and DOIs Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• I'm considering trying upgrading to the beta zotero but scared about loosing data.I have no idea if the new version would solve this, but it should be easy to mitigate against data loss: Make a backup of your zotero data directory & of your docu…

  in overflow with large document OO Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• I presume that the journals in questions are in error rather than Zotero pulling out that data and putting it into the DOI box.This very well could be (there is a lot of garbage out there), but isn't necessarily the case. And, in this particular ex…

  in Ensuring DOIs and DOIs Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• In addition, I don't really understand why you insist on attracting an awful load on your server.If the load was really "awful," it presumably wouldn't be great to use on smaller machines.- open/close the connection to the SQLite database each time …

  in Collaboration over a local area network Comment by noksagt August 12, 2009
• http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6981/opening-bibtex-file-instead-of-importing/

  in BibTex import not working Comment by noksagt August 11, 2009
• I can't replicate this. Empty your trash?

  in Why do reports include include previously deleted items? Comment by noksagt August 11, 2009
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