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• Nice! I'll be working on a style for Masters theses in our faculty over the next few months. Our students hail from 10 or more jurisdictions, with legal systems that are all over the map. I'll look forward to looking at how you've handled things. Ev…

  in Need help to find a mistake/loop Comment by fbennett January 29, 2011
• Unix. :)

  in Need help to find a mistake/loop Comment by fbennett January 28, 2011
• The style is valid XML, but it calls macros that are not defined in the style. Here are a couple of listings that might be helpful in tracking down the problems. First, a list of the macro definitions, with line numbers (note that some macros are de…

  in Need help to find a mistake/loop Comment by fbennett January 28, 2011
• Jon, The multilingual branch will probably do most of what you need, with the hidden option mentioned above turned on. If you install it over a copy of your Zotero database, it will perform an upgrade, and the mainstream beta versions will no longe…

  in Non-Western Name Ordering in Bibliographies Comment by fbennett January 28, 2011
• Recognizing selections in the word processor would require significant extension to the plugins, which would be a problem, because there are (so far) three separate platforms to support, which would be a drain on resources. Some sort of copy and pas…

  in Single to multiple citations in Word Plugin Comment by fbennett January 28, 2011
• Magic merging of citations (which from the frequent descriptions posted I take to be EndNote's behavior) sounds like it could be a real headache to implement and maintain. It would be simple, though, to add a little button to the word processor popu…

  in Single to multiple citations in Word Plugin Comment by fbennett January 28, 2011
• dmk: Feel free to take a look at the tester's version of multilingual and let us know what's missing. http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_thread/thread/c40b71277c8b6963 (Be sure to note the caveats in the first post of that thread.)

  in per-document locale setting (choosing language) Comment by fbennett January 27, 2011
• Hmm. A little investigation quickly disabused me of the idea that it will be easy to automate this, at least without some risk of slippage. To avoid driving people up the wall, we'll have to tie the language code on the field (available in the multi…

  in Non-Western Name Ordering in Bibliographies Comment by fbennett January 26, 2011
• I overlooked Vietnamese. It has nice diacritics over all vowels, so a scan by character set should be able to pick it up pretty reliably. I'll take a look, and post here when something is running in the multilingual client for testing. If we can con…

  in Non-Western Name Ordering in Bibliographies Comment by fbennett January 26, 2011
• But nothing has happened since.A few things have happened, actually. When multilingual support arrives, it will be pretty comprehensive, covering Asian languages and the transliteration of foreign scripts, as well as this particular use case. Briefl…

  in per-document locale setting (choosing language) Comment by fbennett January 26, 2011
• There are many ways one could fashion something like this (GMail offers SMTP ...), and it's surely best provided by a third-party plugin. All that's needed is for someone to implement it.

  in "Email item" feature Comment by fbennett January 26, 2011
• The CSL language doesn't support this. You would have to manually register the initials (or the key) in the "Extra" field, and call it in your CSL (as the "note" variable). But that will be a maintenance headache for you, and won't play well if you …

  in last-name initials Comment by fbennett January 26, 2011
• If it's not tied to the library, what would happen if the center panel was showing a collection when the view is invoked?

  in Recursive display of all items of a collection and its sub-collections Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• Currently, clicking anywhere else will cancel the mode. If invoked via the gear menu, wouldn't it need to be more persistent (i.e. to cancel, you would need to revisit the gear menu)? (Edit: Also, both views do currently work with groups as well as…

  in Recursive display of all items of a collection and its sub-collections Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• It's a separate thing, but the orphan and duplicate views are library-specific, and work only when the library is being viewed from top-level (not a collection). Those two probably belong where they are (as context menu options against top-level lib…

  in Recursive display of all items of a collection and its sub-collections Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• It should also work to edit the citation, and hide the editor before pressing "Accept". IIRC, that should restore the citation to its dynamic form.

  in Inconsistent in-text references Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• The citation processor in Zotero 2.0 has a quirk that is probably the source of what you see. When first-initial/first-name disambiguation is specified by the citation style, the 2.0 processor will add an initial or full name as required to distingu…

  in Inconsistent in-text references Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• Which version of Zotero are you using? The citation formatting engines in 2.0 and 2.1 are completely different, so that's where we need to start.

  in Inconsistent in-text references Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• @MapLicker, The index used for text searches of Zotero content is unrelated to the citation processor (which is where the error posted by joehill is coming from). It is likely that this error has been caused by a bug in the citeproc-js processor t…

  in Error updating openoffice.org document in 2.1b Comment by fbennett January 25, 2011
• For some reason this works in the multilingual branch. Possibly the bug was squashed by a fix that went in to the trunk after 2.1b4 was released, which I later merged (blindly) to the multilingual version.

  in 2.1b4 update - Add Item by Identifier (ISBN) not working Comment by fbennett January 24, 2011
• The straightforward answer to reflections on these lines is that challenging the copyright rules that underpin closed publishing does not require that they be broken. If open systems of publishing and text sharing are more viable as a medium for aca…

  in Academic Napster or enabling file storage for open group Comment by fbennett January 24, 2011
• Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be working for me, under Ubuntu 10.10 with Open Office 3.2. Zotero version tested is 2.1b4 (w/multilingual patches). Do others find this to work under Ubuntu 10.10 & Zotero 2.1.b4?

  in Drag 'standalone note' into document Comment by fbennett January 23, 2011
• [N]ow that Debbie is on board, a blog post once every two weeks or so to tell people what's new ...I agree with adamsmith; this would be very welcome. Even those of us inclined to obsess over technical things have a non-technical side to our persona…

  in Need for better community communication Comment by fbennett January 23, 2011
• Which version of Zotero are you using? (Also, it's not clear what you mean by "omitting names"; are individual names going missing, or entire references?)

  in Harvard style omission of subsequent authors Comment by fbennett January 17, 2011
• Zotero is designed to do this for a reason, of course. http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation Turning off disambiguation entirely in the way that Dana suggests is certainly an option, so long as you don't mind ambiguity in your…

  in first name letter in citation Comment by fbennett January 17, 2011
• @Ben Quaye, What version of Zotero are you running?

  in first name letter in citation Comment by fbennett January 17, 2011
• http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15887/slow-syncing-read-this/

  in Endless Sync, both with FF and Standalone Comment by fbennett January 16, 2011
• Odd. What do you get at the command line from this command:ls -l /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so

  in Zotero giving component errors in Ubuntu 10.10.Already tried everything on the troubleshooting page. Comment by fbennett January 16, 2011
• The style isn't valid, so you'll need to fix it first. At line 1154, in the second key node inside the sort section, the style calls a macro "author" to get the key, but there is no such macro in the style. Here are some notes on validation of sty…

  in Greek citation style Comment by fbennett January 15, 2011
• @thestudentspirit, Would a saved search that looks for keywords in the Extra field do what you're after?

  in simple marking of items? Comment by fbennett January 15, 2011
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