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  • I also like how autocompletion is implemented in Zotero -- it is more efficient and more comprehensive than in EndNote. It's more comprehensive because it works in the search window, but only in some fields of the record editing window of EndNote. I…
  • Thanks for these comments, though I'm not sure I understand what constitutes a "hack" as opposed to a programming change that improves usability. Another solution to my original problem of importing large numbers of references containing italicized…
  • Perhaps it is not a bug but a feature of Zotero to remove html codes from imported references. If so, this implies that converting a large EndNote database with scientific names and other italicized words in titles can not be automated in a way that…
  • I've suggested before that Zotero needs to add a user-friendly process for rich-text formatting so that, for example, parts of titles (like scientific names) can be shown in italics in the Zotero record as well as a bibliography that is produced fro…
  • There seems to be a more fundamental problem with adding items by identifier in version 3.0b2. When I have a source document (usually a pdf) with a doi, I copy the doi to the Windows clipboard, then open the "add item by identifier" box in Zotero an…
  • Thanks for your replies -- these planned improvements in Zotero sound promising. In answer to Dan's question, I have used RIS to export selected references from EndNote to a file for importing to Zotero. Zotero instructions say that the RIS fil…
  • My question may be more fundamental than those posted on this thread so far, but it seems related. I have set up a private group to provide bibliographies on various topics to students in my graduate-level research design class. I have defined the g…