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The "my library folder" is just the entirety of your database. Any other folders are simply subsets of that database. Conceptually, Zotero works like iTunes or GMail, where you have database entries, and folders or playlists are just pointers to th…
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At the crude end of the spectrum it seems surely possible to define a type called 'user type' that has fields 'specific user type' and 'user parameter field' 1,2,3 etc... As I said in another thread, this is so crude as to be useless. This kind of s…
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"Generic" is not always better; at all. It can be much worse, in fact, if you want to be able to interoperate with other users or applications. Just ask former Endnote users who relied a lot on its user-defined types and fields how easy it was to mo…
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Zotero has saved searches. The Zotero team gets hundreds of feature requests, and not everyone shares the same priorities, nor the same perspective on how to solve the specific issues. For example, there's been long threads on what you call "for…
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Custom item types - do we have this yet ? - as of Zotero 1.0.7. I am very interested in using zotero to store citations to workgroup-based datasets and graphs. So then why ask for custom types, rather than for "dataset" and "graph"? Custom types a…
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Search the forums; this has been discussed before extensively.
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Not possible ATM.
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@swinster: as I suggested above, for one thing, supporting Word's approach would be a step backwards in many ways, and I don't think MS has made it terribly easy for third-party developers (yet).
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Yeah, I think the first step is the hardest in some ways: to figure out the existing style that is closest to what you need, and to itemize any possible differences. If you can post them here clearly, someone may be able to find time to help you. A…
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Save it as an HTML file and open that in Word.
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ITS, here at least, seems to be completely over Word 2004... You should ask them why that's the case, given that MS has removed VBA. Alternately, can you not install other applications yourself? You might want to give OpenOffice a try ;-)
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I believe this has been discussed before.
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I really like the Delicious Firefox plug-in, which has a kind of auto-hierarchy function. So, an item has two tags: let's say "foo" and "bar." Those tags can be accessed as a flat list, but they can also be accessed as folders, where "foo" contains …
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See above simoko. We know nothing about chrome's extension story AFAIK, so that even if the Zotero team were interested, they'd have no idea if it's even possible.
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I'm the co-project lead for the OOo bibliographic project. I'd follow Jon's suggestions. My own view (that not everyone shares) is that it makes no sense to build in an integrated bibliographic application*, and that it's better instead to improve…
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@trevor: Zotero is not adding breaks to all bibliographies, it is style specific. But this should NOT be the case. Zotero should never, ever, add line-breaks between items. Rather, it should set the style's properties to achieve this, so that users…
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@HS: that's probably reasonable (and simple to extend for other, more complex, cases, such as multiple sub-bibliographies). The one quibble I would have is with this: 4. Each bibliography is accompanied with a cite command for itself. There's no poi…
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@alison: this should help with your first question. You want "names-as-sort-order" set to "first." For the second, you need to change the "sort" element to call the "issued" variable: ...
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Although, noksagt, those examples are all raw bibtex. It'd be nice to see finished references, or style guides.
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On style-dependent abbreviations, how exactly are they so? Are you saying some styles insist on "Phys. Rev. Lett." and others on ""Phys. Rev. Let.", or simply one may require "Phys Rev Lett" over "Phys. Rev. Lett."? If it's the latter, then there's…
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Does the mark up for these things actually change from style to style much, or could we simply allow some basic mark up like inside title fields? As I've tried to communicate many times, I don't see markup in titles as distinct from other kinds of…
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What do you mean that relying on types too much in the style is a bad idea? What else is there to rely on? Variables. One more thing; I've checked a few styles and it seems that no one put "if" clauses in the bibliography / layout section? I would w…
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You can read the schema (search for "cs-types"). Note, though, that relying on types too much in the style is a bad idea.
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Yes, but the translator could have been fixed to not set the pages field a long time ago. In any case, good to see it'll be resolved soon.
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This is what I'd call a long-standing bug, both in Zotero, and in the Amazon translator. Just remove the page numbers.
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Yeah, my argument for leaving it in is that it's more evil to leave out necessary information than to include that which is unnecessary. No sane copy editor is going to complain about the latter case, and if they do, then the user should remove the …
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The devil is in the details, though, and there are a lot of problems with Word's built-in support. As just one example, it can't correctly format author-date styles like APA. It also cannot switch between footnote and in-text styles like Zotero can.…
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One of the nice things about embedded metadata (with, for example, RDFa) is that you can use it not only to describe the article, but also any included bibliographic references.
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I don't have a specific answer for you, but just want to note that both Talis and Zotero have contributed to the new Bibliographic Ontology. Talis is already using it in some internal projects, and I expect you'll see Zotero supporting it too (thoug…
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There's no way to change the settings without creating a new style, so ask your supervisor to tell you which style to use from this list. If they hover over the styles, they'll see a preview.