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I'm actually not accustom to open programs. Is the person who suggests a feature change supposed to change the program his/herself as suggested by adamsmith? Not per se. But I think adamsmith was pointing out that a) features don't happen by magic, …
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Is there anything in particular I should watch for? No; Zotero works seamlessly across Windows and Mac, but also Linux. Is there a preferred browser? I have Chrome and Safari. I don't believe the answer is any different on the Mac. Use what you've b…
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Notwithstanding what the old style guide publishers say, it doesn't make much sense to add a separate type, nor one specific enough as "Kindle eBook." I'd suggest this could be handled in a "medium" and/or "edition" field under the existing "Book" …
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... the rational for MLA (e.g.) not to print URLs is not that those article's aren't online (in MLA they'll actually be marked specifically as online), it's that you can just google/otherwisesearch the title and find the article. Isn't this true of …
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You can't trim them as part of the citation style. What is possible is to code a citation style (or use an existing one) that doesn't print URLs for anything except web pages ... Yes, but for the record, that's not a very good general solution, cons…
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Yeah, I think this is up to the translators to handle; trimming off unnecessary parameter options, for example (relevant to the NYT, but not a lot of others sites, that use parameters for navigation).
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Isn't this similar to the American Anthropological Association style? If yes, you can figure out some of what you're asking for taking a look at that. See: https://gist.github.com/027bae9d732cf57eaaae
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As a general rule, with requests like these, it's a good idea to specify why you want to do something. That can allow people to figure out different possibilities. E.g. I think you're jumping too quickly to a proposed solution, rather than defining …
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OK. By "context" I was purely meaning of the citation within the document, from the perspective of the user dealing with these citations; irrespective even of Zotero, etc. I probably should have left out that last phrase.
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@dstark - so just to be crystal clear: By and large, your first summary seems correct ... In SBL, parentheses around a citation in a footnote are entirely optional, and it's just as common to include such a citation (in a footnote) without parenthes…
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So to go back to my original point, a) I still don't think this was ever explained very clearly , and b) yes, I did miss something. My current understanding: SBL is a note-based style. In that style, some details (like publisher) are by default enc…
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Actually, to put a fine point on this conversation: The problem is CSL is quite complex making an easy to use editor difficult and time consuming to program. Actually, real world citation styling is complex. The complexity of CSL is just a side-ef…
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I don't think you're the standard case here. Granted. But I didn't say I was; just suggested there may be different opinions. And Ctrl/Cmd-I is hardly funky—it's pretty much universal in rich-text editors. I'm not talking about those, but the other …
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It would use keyboard shortcuts, as Rintze says, which are more discoverable and user-friendly than markup. I think this may be a YMMV situation. I find markup easier to remember than funky keyboard shortcuts.
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z39.50 implementation may happen (though I'm skeptical), but it would require a substantial addition to Zotero, since it's a search&retrieve standard and Zotero doesn't provide for direct querying of databases. In many ways, the whole point of i…
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CSL has no support for configuring this. CSL processors (like the one in Zotero) just "do the right thing" (which is an en-dash). ;-) I say don't worry about it. I seriously doubt anyone will complain about en-dashes. If they do they, you can do a …
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Dan: Well, the real fix would be to get rid of the visible markup—which works because the citation processor supports it, not Zotero itself—and just use a stripped down rich-text interface for titles. People shouldn't have to enter HTML themselves. …
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This is an interesting idea. Effectively, it'd need to be a "smart collection" that searches based on recent citation. But I could see this being a little tricky. How would you propose Zotero would know about, and how would it deal with the possib…
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This is (almost certainly) a Word issue. The notes should get tagged with a paragraph style (like "endnote"). You thus need to edit that style in Word to do what you want. See, for example: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/modifyastyle.html
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I'm currently making the Zotero format for the Pontifical Biblical Institute. They require that a book title be formatted in italics, while the book subtitle be formatted in regular type. Both fields are considered required. Hmm ... to my request ab…
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There is one small error: the abbreviation of the first name of the author comes sometimes up in the text citations, while the journal requires that only the last names are given in the text citations. Would it be possible to change that? Or is it j…
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Master document features were invented ages ago, when computers were much less powerful, and had much less RAM. Just combine the documents into one (when you're ready).
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FWIW, I guess I'm still the co-project lead for the OOo bibliographic project (even if it's been dead for quite awhile), and I wouldn't recommend using the built-in tool. I've never had an issue with Zotero/OOo stability, so suggest you try to debug…
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Since nobody seems to have asked the question ... I have openoffice odt files with hundreds of citations and I consider migrating them to LaTeX. Why are you "considering" this? Seems like a bad idea to me mid-project.
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OK, all apologies if I was snarky but bdarcus' answer did not seem very friendly either... You were reading into this snark that wasn't there. To rintze's quote, I was busy, and so being as brief, and precise, as possible. Would you have preferred …
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Is there any way to convert zotero's citations into endnote-editable citations??? No. Tell him not to edit the citations.
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So the solution isn't necessarily a new type; it could also be modifying an existing type (report and/or document).
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I just got raked over the coals by my dissertation committee ... Really inspiring to see dissertation committees focus on the important stuff. Sheesh. Dirty little secret: I'm the guy that created the CSL style language. I NEVER critique grad stude…
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@19Ron49 - your post reads like borderline spam. Be careful about that in the future. @RobertoLee's post is definitely spam. Let's delete it and that account?
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Isn't that a Zotero bug then?