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Trevor: I like the page. Consider expanding the heading 'Differences from similar style:', since that particular point is one which we want to encourage the requesters to focus on. Perhaps: The next step is to itemize the precise differences that …
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By 'annotation of elements on the website itself' do you mean "altering the HTML that the site's server dishes out"? Or do you envision some way to put a layer of markup between the reader and the (live, potentially changing) website? Or do you im…
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I'd love to see Zotero (ultimately) enable you to publish your notes, either as ongoing work, as the residue of completed reserch work or as notesets that never were intended to be anything more (annotations on a primary text, for example). Putti…
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2nd. It is a great idea. And I also second the idea of approaching it as a note enhancement. Somehow if individual notes could (also) be treated as more independent entities, so that those which are not 'reading notes' (and therefore children of …
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Sure, I think we're both on the same page. (And I think that if all you need is a hack, you can do what you need now by just putting the whole double date in the date field, but we both consider that beside the point, I guess.) As to the larger pr…
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@simifilm What I know is that no one wants to create a complete new entry just for a few fields like "Original year of publication" or "Original title" Not sure about that. The original poster, for example, wants basically a full citation of all re…
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Right. It only works to manually edit the citations if you DON'T intend to change the citation style, which is a problem for you. Zotero and the Citation Style Language which handles its citation formatting were designed to be able to facilitate c…
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@lorgg Just so you know, it's no problem already to edit the actual citation to include just the extra information you want. But this isn't automatic, and you'd have to do it manually for each citation, and no one thinks it's a full solution. …
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1. close Firefox (not sure if this is necessary) 2. run the PDF-Xchange setup program 3. During the install, Make sure that on the 'Install Components' page the "Mozilla Add-In" is selected along with whatever other components you want (non-English …
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Just don't put anything in the locator box. Add it all by means of the editor. Then you control exactly what is there, abbreviations or no, multiple locators, etc. I just tried it and it seems to work for me.
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As you might already know, it's already pretty easy to neatly save the text of an entry from the online OED (Use Zotero's 'create new item from current page' -- select the printable version of the entry first for a cleaner look). This doesn't, how…
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So it sounds like you want to include two or more different locators in a single citation: (1) the set used for the ancient writer you are working with (with book/chapter/section/paragraph numbering) and (2) the page or column number. Is this right…
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It's not possible in Zotero to 'number' your references in the way you describe. Though Zotero does save a 'creation date' which one might be able to use in a similar way. I use collections for my workflow-related tags. I have a structure somethi…
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I expect you'll have to be more specific about what it is you want, but I'll start by saying that whatever shortages Zotero might have for your projected use (and there may be many), and whatever possibilities it might also have (and there could wel…
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thanks. Perhaps I'll give the Word plugin another try.
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re 2: sorting alphabetically means that you can start them with something like: 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.1 or use the old BASIC line numbering technique to give room in between the notes: 1.10 1.20 1.30 etc.
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And is manually editing reliable? The main reason I have avoided the Word plugin so far is that I have too many such entries which would need manual attention. I use quick-copy at the moment, but the project is a PhD thesis, so it would be nice to…
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I second the interface discomfort expressed in the preceding two posts. In fact Zotero's strength at slurping up references from web databases, means that I don't generally remember (what seem to me to be) these interface quirks, between uses, so I…
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As I keep using Zotero, I like that final idea above more all the time: A prefixed '.' in the quicksearch bar would search for the search terms in some subset of the common metadata fields: title, date, creator, and, maybe journal title and journa…
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I think Bruce means to ask whether (in the case of English) this is an EN_GB vs EN_US issue, and whether or not styles like Chicago could not simply have ONE style description which was applied two different ways based on the locale (US, GB, etc). …
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Thanks for the tip about using the indent buttons for nested lists. I'll try it next time I have the SP open. it would be handy if tab/shift-tab did indent and outdent... That certainly makes outlining on the fly a lot easier. I can imagine that t…
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4. The ability to nest numbered lists, for mini-outlines.
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I don't think you'll get a better workaround than that at the moment. There is a longer term intention for Zotero to address this (rather tricky) issue by explicitly relating database entries to one another, and then invoking that relationship as n…
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I have freely deleted files (*.png, *.gif, and javascript) files from the zotero data directory and not noticed any consequences except what I intended (a simpler page with 'just the data'). I don't have this on any authority, but I don't think Zot…
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Aah, of course, the old, old "?sort=note" trick. :) Thanks for mentioning it.
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My above suggestion for note headers referring to biblical references doesn't work, but the following does. Make note headers like: ~1Macc3.15 ~Phil1.1 ~1Cor1.12 And searches like: ~gen ~ex15 ~ex15.2 ~…
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@bdarcus Like? I'm curious. To me ticket 672 is a "certainly gotta happen sometime," along with some other things related to notes, (some dreams here). I don't have a feel for all of the priorities of the Zotero project to know whether it should …
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2nding bdarcus. There may be no killer technique which gets you what you want in the near term. Zotero needs sophisticated note handling, beginning with the ability to get search results (as noted above) with only what you need. I would love …
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In the Chicago-related styles, that order is how the two items appear in bibliographies. (New York: Special Publishers, 1999).
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And do you happen to know it would require (in general terms) to use MODS XML to expose the bibliographic metadata served up by an existing OPAC? Is it just a matter of embedding tags in the HTML output, like COinS, or is server infrastructure req…