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I don't mind if documents are available as PDFs, but I really hate when projects force people to read PDFs. The priority should be better HTML documentation in my view.
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I also want to mention something else quickly as we think about design issues: Part of the challenge here is UI. The current UI has real estate limitations that partly drive the design. But what if agents got full class UIs (also)? So imagine in …
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No, we really didn't. We started with the premise that most users will be entering at least some Western names, and having an option to enter "first" and "last" names for those both makes the UI clearer and allows for some additional autocomplete fu…
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BTW, I'll add a followup question: I'm working on an import/export model that Zotero plans to adopt. We'll use FOAF for describing people and organizations. FOAF isn't per se designed for this, but I think the solution is to encode family and given…
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Yeah, the problem is that the Zotero team started from a problematic premise: that all names are Western names. This isn't really their fault exactly (even though I warned them!), b/c the vast majority of their users and possible data sources also r…
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Try not using the "last name" field but rather clicking on the icon to the right of the field, which toggles on the "full name" field. This will allow you to get proper sorting and display (though probably not initialization). The Citation Style La…
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The "new ODF format" is ODF 1.2, which includes RDF support. Sun is working now on including an API in OOo to work with RDF data (and fields), and citations are an obvious use case for this, allowing the data to be embedded in the file package. I …
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I might be able to take a look at it next week.
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Zotero is a great tool, but it's "closed" inside a browser. Could Zotero evolve to include something like papers with a interface outside the Browser? Search the forums; this has come up before. But for the record, I really don't understand this ar…
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This has been discussed before, but just to underline the point, yes, it's critical to be able to clearly distinguish who authors content (annotations/notes vs. excerpts/quotes, etc.).
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Don't get distracted by your lack of programming background; this is just basic logic, that happens to be expressed in angle brackets and such. I just committed a change for asa that has this: I think that might express what you're saying abo…
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The easiest way to fix this is for you to look at the styles directly and figure out what the settings should be for the et-al options. The part of the code that sets this behavior is this: I am assuming you want that second option s…
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I don't use Word ;-) That's a problem WRT to csledit.xul. It really needs to render the spaces. Maybe it could wrap the output in a pre element?
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I'm still NOT seeing any extra spacing using csledit.xul. Everything is rendered correctly in my test example. If you can confirm the same, then we've narrowed down the problem to a bug somewhere in the wp integration I'd imagine. Also, can you ch…
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Actually, it must add a doubles-space before the publisher macro (the place is not the issue here). I'm looking at the style, but having a hard time seeing how that can be. Indeed, I can't reproduce it, so you might double--check this, and post a fe…
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The rules are confusing on et al though. What happens if you have more than three authors? Does it use the first three plus et al on the first?
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If you want to work on usability, maybe you could try to combine this with the chrome://zotero/content/tools/csledit.xul test pane, so that whenever you click generate it automatically shows you citations of a selected Zotero reference? I think this…
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I'm of the opinion that in the case you cite you really don't need to indicate that it's a special issue. But you have to realize that to do what you want the correct way would yield a more complex model. You'd essentially have to make explicit that…
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@eckles: because there's a difference between "can" and "must." If you don't set the spacing in the CSL style and have Zotero (or other implementations) pass on that information, then users are required to set it themselves, and the formatting doesn…
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What kind of "integration" are you thinking about? Some work has started on a PHP port of the citation formatting code by the developer of the Drupal biblio module, so it might be an option to help out with that if that's part of what you're intere…
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This points out the problems with the web page type. One might argue, for example, that your example is really an atlas that happens to be online. But certainly more flexibility is good.
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@davej: How is this ... I suggest exporting your library into EndNote, and generating a bibliography from that. It's more accurate in complying with APA format, which means less editing for you. ... a more sensible solution than itemizing the probl…
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Let me clarify: sorting of citations IS defined in CSL. The APA style includes instructions for sorting them. So, my point stands: if someone is using the APA style, their citations should be sorted automatically. If they're not, there's a bug in Z…
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Cool. You might look on the dev list for some upcoming discussions on this issue.
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Zotero should already sort the citations. If it doesn't, there's a bug.
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Exhibitions aren't "publications" really; they're events. More like, say, a public speech, rather than a book. As for catalogs; what's wrong with a generic "Document"?
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Biggest question: is there a good reason _not_ to have an if/else-if/else structure in the layout for a citation or bibliography? Well, depends. I've been working on an idea (which I think will actually happen sooner rather than later) to create an …
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canasta: CSL does not now support styling of et-al, but will soon.
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I did give a "bottom line" answer free of jargon there: no, not supported, and it's really largely Apple's problem. In short, don't hold your breath. Zotero works fine on Leopard AFAIK (I'm using it now). It does not work with Word 2008 (because of…
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Yes, Scot, you've got the idea. Really what we need is an API for citations, and then different input/output drivers for different applications and formats. So, for example, you have a generic notion of a citation and a reference. A citation is an…