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Here's another one I just came across: I have a memo published in an edited book. I need all the fields in the "letter" type, and also the fields (or better yet, auto-complete linking to) for the book container. [edit: this is actually an annoying …
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Sort of related, but I was proposing an idea for extensions on one of the Google Docs lists. It might have some relevance for Zotero, since the upshot is that it might be possible to add citation support there without their help (would just need to …
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marsh: note that OOo support for Zotero that is both equivalent to and more-or-less compatible with that in Word (e.g. possible to send documents back-and-forth between Word and OOo users) is coming "real soon."
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Not unless Apple does a whole lot of work on an extension infrastructure for Safari. This FAQ entry applies to Safari as well.
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It occurs to me (as a newbie and non-programmer) that this may not be possible due to some technical differences in the way, say, Filemaker and Firefox do databases. Is this the case? No. Zotero has a relational database underneath (so same technolo…
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Thanks. When do you expect the next update? Should I move to the dev xpi?
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I expect sometime this Summer. We're currently looking at finalizing the style language, and as a part of that process, I will make sure to finish the BB style.
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Admittedly, creating new styles and getting them activated in Zotero remains a bit tricky. But I expect this problem will slowly be solved in ways that go way beyond Endnote. My vision (I am the author of the style language) is to have distributed…
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Weird. I did update the scrapers, as well as restart FF; still no go.
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I disagree. Zotero works differently than other reference managers; it imports content directly from web pages. As a result, if there isn't one already, the focus should be a translator for pubmed gateways. Just as a practical matter I (who couldn'…
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The easiest way is to just install and use portable firefox from the USB drive. But portable FF is Windows only, right? I'd not tried it, but was thinking the more general way to do this is just specify the USB drive as the save directory for Zote…
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Well, I was sort of serious: in the sources I read small caps are not only used for Roman Numerals in dates etc., but also place names are often printed in small capitals. So what in fact is essential is the fact that they dates or place names. That…
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raf: small caps? Are you serious? That's advanced typography. For what real purpose? The more complex a note-taking system is, the more it treads into the realm of a word-processor, and the less effective it is at its task. I dunno: I suppose a CS…
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Well, I don't thing the label "creator" is meant to be taken literally--a "recipient" of a letter did not create any of it and yet needs to be included as "creator." Which actually underlines my point. I don't think Zotero should consider a recipien…
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I'm not that concerned about the UI aspects here (how users should enter the dates). I'm concerned with the integrity of the data, such that it can be reliably sorted, formatted, imported and exported. So we need a reliable machine-readable way to …
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Just a followup to this after doing a little poking around. It turns out the XSD gYear datatype does support BCE encodings. One does this be prepending a "-" character. So this would be valid: -0523 ... or in N3: dc:date "-0523"^^xsd:gYear .
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The problem is Zotero really needs to store dates that computers can understand, and there aren't really any widely understood conventions for these sorts of dates. I agree it's a problem to be solved, but it's not that straightforward. Dan, if you…
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@seantmitch: before posting new issues, please do a search first. This issue has been discussed here numerous times. The short-term solution is to remove the content from the URL field, and if you wish to to preserve, create a link.
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Another problem that I put to your attention and that if it were solved could improve the compatibility between Zotero and DevonThink is the fact that Zotero gives to every folder which contains a saved web page a number, which obviously is the ID w…
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I'm not sure what you mean by proprietary and platform specific. Simple: they only work on OS X, and can only be created (from my understanding) by hooking into OS X APIs. Firefox and Zotero also work on Windows, Linux, and a number of other opera…
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@drsandrug: you do realize the Zotero devs have publicly said (many, many times) they'd be offering this functionality ever since they announced Zotero? As for OOo, hang tight: coming soon.
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You wouldn't need a footnote, only a formatted bibliographic citation. (But doesn't a bibliographic citation need to be formatted in CSL as well as a footnote?) . Yes. It would be nice to have an automatic way of exporting formatted manuscript sourc…
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Well, no new field is required because Spivak would be just another creator--only a creator type needs to be added (unless this point refers to a World plugin field rather than a Zotero field, in which case, never mind). This seems to be important f…
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I'm not convinced this one is an eccentricity. I see that MLA 5 (4.6.17) and Turabian 6 (8.43, 11.24) both address it. (I don't have any other guides handy to check them.) Just because more that one style does it doesn't mean it's not eccentric ;-) …
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The point about the private format is to suggest not only that they shouldn't try to create these files, but that they can't. In the information I could find about webarchive, there's no information about writing or reading these files outside of Ap…
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Not really knowing anything about webarchive, I googled. According to this post, it is a private (e.g. Apple/Safari-only) format. Rather typical of Apple really. So in that sense, it's hardly a "standard." I really don't recommend Zotero be support…
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Original publication info is a big deal in my work. It's always caused me trouble in Endnote. Right, because Endnote has a brain-dead flat data model. Answering my own question, BTW, the way you deal with it is to treat the original resource as a f…
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Just to remove all doubt--here are the first two pages of a bibliography including formatted manuscript collections and periodicals with abbreviations. These are citations. How so? You're still showing a fragment of a bibliography; not a citation. …
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Here are the first three pages of a bibliography beginning with a section of manuscript collections and another one of periodicals. Great example. I guess I sort of stand corrected, though will just note those aren't really citations per se; more li…
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I still am not sure about this, even for Zotero. Let me explain from the data modeling and GUI perspective: We would no doubt all agree that it would be useful to have a full list of contributor relations: editor, translator, director, speaker, etc…