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• The multi-volume works issue is about to become significantly painful for me, with the large number of single-authored, multi-volume works carried by Japanese legal publishers. Looking at the Zotero schema, I don't see any obvious reason why publi…

  in Changes to fields and item types for Zotero 5.1 Comment by fbennett February 27, 2011
• Yep. Since this turned out to be completely a processor issue, it's just a matter of upgrading the version of citeproc-js that Zotero uses to generate citations and bibliographies. As you can tell from the processor version number (currently 1.0.117…

  in Zotero 2Beta Bibliography Uses ??? Instead of --- Comment by fbennett February 26, 2011
• I've looked into this, and it appears that the RTF converter in the processor is not escaping em-dash characters. It should be simple to fix; Chinese characters are correctly rendered, so it looks to be just be a matter of extending the scope of the…

  in Zotero 2Beta Bibliography Uses ??? Instead of --- Comment by fbennett February 26, 2011
• @marionsd, @annekebatenburg, I've built a testing version of Zotero 2.1b7 that has the revised CSL processor in it. This is for testing only; it will not upgrade automatically; it's meant for testing, with a copy of your main database and the docum…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 25, 2011
• Yes, it's all wide open: https://www.zotero.org/trac/

  in OpenOffice could not communicate with Zotero Error, begging help! Comment by fbennett February 25, 2011
• We'll see how it goes. I've been blind-sided by this issue, and I'm not absolutely certain that I've pinned down the cause. But the processor has been very heavily tested otherwise, and if this first attempt doesn't nail it, we will track it down. I…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 24, 2011
• I think I've gotten a bead on the problem. I'll be putting up a revision to the processor soon, which will work it's way into the trunk when Simon picks it up. He may ask people on this thread to test with the trunk version, in advance of the next r…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 24, 2011
• Ha. I just checked my development code, in the place where I distinctly remember fixing this issue -- and the fix is not there. I must have had an old copy of the file lurking somewhere, and let it be overwritten sometime before the 2.1b7 release. …

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 24, 2011
• That's not good, and it will be fixed. But we'll need to work out a pattern to the behavior. Can you provide any further information? Alternatively, if I provide you with an email address, can you send along a copy of a (hopefully small) failing doc…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 24, 2011
• @annekebatenburg, More info on this behavior locally. I can only reproduce this under a narrow set of circumstances. (1) If I begin with a database having one reference with two authors, and I add that reference to a document, the citation comes ou…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• I've been able to reproduce this in Zotero. It's not clear yet what the cause is, but with three references in a single citation, which are identical in the first name, but differ in the second and third, I'm getting the second name in the output. A…

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• adamsmith is right, CSL 0.8 can't cope with the sorting algorithm specified for this style; you need to use CSL 1.0. It's tricky, but the processor can handle it if the sort keys are set up correctly. There is sample code that implements this sort a…

  in Same author different year citations appear out of order in bibliography Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• On second thought, let's not consolidate these threads, they really are about separate issues. I shouldn't touch the keyboard before morning coffee, I really shouldn't.

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• (For reference, there is another thread related to issues with the Copernicus style, concerning a possible processor bug, which is a separate issue. Please ignore my initial post here suggesting that the threads should be merged.)

  in Same author different year citations appear out of order in bibliography Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• Let's consolidate this discussion on the other thread. (Edit: Never mind ...)

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• Looks like disambiguation. Are there other references in the document for which Rhee is the primary author?

  in suppress second author before `et al.' Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• After stripping out the hyphens between the lines, the style validates. Those are not your runtime copy, I hope. To test, I converted the style to CSL 1.0 (which Zotero will do internally). I then threw the following data at it, and got the followi…

  in Same author different year citations appear out of order in bibliography Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• A simple test for this passes in the processor. Can you upload an offending style as a github gist, and post the url back here? http://gist.github.com/ (Edit: One thing to check, with respect to citations in the style code posted by mdoube, is whe…

  in Same author different year citations appear out of order in bibliography Comment by fbennett February 23, 2011
• Figuring out the necessary changes will give you freedom and flexibility going forward. In these particular examples, it looks like only two small changes are needed to the CSL. You'll need to add an initialize-with=". " attribute to a element, and…

  in Sheffield Harvard style Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• Which version of Zotero are you running? In Zotero 2.0, the button should always be there in the toolbar (not the browser toolbar, but the one at the top of the Zotero panel that is revealed when you click on that icon in the lower right corner of t…

  in icon in browser bar? Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• That's great to hear.

  in Upgrade to beta 4 - problems with word integration Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• Be sure to set aside a copy of the offending document; it may seem an odd thing to say, but anything that can reproduce the error is a valuable resource at this stage. (And what adamsmith says. There was a bug in pre-Zotero 2.1b7 releases that could…

  in Upgrade to beta 4 - problems with word integration Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• The browser bar icon will appear when you visit pages that contain bibliographic data Zotero can recognize. For other websites, you can save a copy of the page, together with its URL, using a "Create New Item from Current Page" button in Zotero itse…

  in icon in browser bar? Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• The multilingual branch is based on 2.1beta (actually the trunk itself, but that's close to 2.1beta at the moment).

  in ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero Comment by fbennett February 22, 2011
• I haven't used zotfile before, and I don't know the ins and outs of its features, but I just installed it over the multilingual branch, and it seems to work. I get a couple of items at the bottom of the context menu, and clicking on it offers to att…

  in ZotFile - Advanced PDF management for Zotero Comment by fbennett February 21, 2011
• On another thread, I suggested a kind of popup clipboard mechanism that went over like a lead balloon: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3262/single-to-multiple-citations-in-word-plugin/#Item_49 Such a thing might be useful for this case as well.

  in quicly insert previous citation in Word Comment by fbennett February 20, 2011
• Technically, it should be possible to extend the number of names included. There would be a question of how it should be controlled ... and whether it happens would depend on available developer time, and on how much demand there is out there. This…

  in Add/Edit Citation - Authors Listed Comment by fbennett February 20, 2011
• It's implemented the 2.1 processor, and should just work. How are you entering your data, and what construct are you using to call it in CSL?

  in First page only for Comment by fbennett February 20, 2011
• Which version of Zotero are you using?

  in How do I eliminate the default period and commas when I do not use certain fields in a citation Comment by fbennett February 20, 2011
• Yay, that's great to hear -- and glad to know that it's working for you!

  in strip-periods not working yet? Comment by fbennett February 20, 2011
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