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• Mendeley and Zotero use the same citation formatter (written by yours truly). I can't speak for either project, but Zotero is probably the more likely of the two to introduce full legal style support in the main product in the medium term (say withi…

  in Mendeley vs. Zotero Comment by fbennett July 3, 2014
• All members of the official Zotero family (Standalone and Zotero for Firefox) use the same code, across all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). There are minor differences between Standalone and Zotero for Firefox, but only because Standalone does not …

  in Zotero platforms Comment by fbennett July 3, 2014
• The Bluebook styles in the official Zotero style repository haven't had much attention for the past couple of years. That's not due to neglect; full support for the Bluebook style is difficult at present, given some (temporary) limitations in Zotero…

  in Bluebook citation Syle Comment by fbennett July 3, 2014
• More difficult is the case where no volume number is given. If the primary volume number is expressed as a year, and there is an "issue number" that increments from 1 within each year, then the OSCOLA cite would be: Safet Orucevic, ‘Mostar: Europe’s…

  in Style Request: Oscola Comment by fbennett July 3, 2014
• Nice one. Certainly food for thought. I'll play around with the processor code a little, and wait to see what Sebastian and Rintze have to say.

  in Style Error: Chicago Author-Date: collapse Comment by fbennett July 2, 2014
• There is a button in the word processor for inserting a bibliography, near the button for inserting references. If the style you are using supports a bibliography, just put the cursor in the document where you want the bibliography, and click on th…

  in How to get the list of refernces used in the manuscript. Comment by fbennett July 2, 2014
• What happens if you type a space, then backspace, after entering the characters?

  in Quick Format Citation does not recognise non-English characters Comment by fbennett July 1, 2014
• @sweis2: Here is a style file to get you started. It does more or less what you describe, if items are dragged into a plain text editor. https://gist.github.com/fbennett/c97459fb86ad9e92a87b Download the style with the "Raw" link, then install…

  in Print or Export Sorted List of Titles Comment by fbennett June 30, 2014
• For reference, here is the thread on the Zotero fix.

  in [MLZ] The library is not visible any longer Comment by fbennett June 30, 2014
• @egrebnev: A fix for this was released in Zotero, and I had applied it locally but neglected to push out a fresh MLZ release. Updating MLZ should make everything right again. My apologies for the inconvenience; if there are any other glitches, do p…

  in [MLZ] The library is not visible any longer Comment by fbennett June 30, 2014
• No need for any sudden moves. This looks like breakage that has already been fixed upstream. I'll post back within an hour or so with news.

  in [MLZ] The library is not visible any longer Comment by fbennett June 30, 2014
• That should work, but I work wrap the cs:choose in a macro for readability. Whatever variables are actually rendered via cs:substitute will be suppressed in the remainder of the cite. (Edit: Also, your condition should trigger only when a containe…

  in element inside ? Comment by fbennett June 30, 2014
• This is easy enough to set up, but for a specialized style for personal use, you will be better off in the long run if you read the documentation on CSL and cast it yourself. That way, you will have more flexibility, and when the output needs to be …

  in Print or Export Sorted List of Titles Comment by fbennett June 29, 2014
• There was an update to the RTF/ODF Scan plugin last week. If you (or your computer) updated the plugin recently, the update may be the cause of the trouble. In any case, the plugin should never produce invalid XML. If you still have a copy of the b…

  in RTF/ODF Scan for Zotero Comment by fbennett June 27, 2014
• I've pushed a processor version that adds whitespace after the prefix unless the text is from a non-romanlike script, and before the suffix if it leads with an opening bracket or parens.

  in citeproc-js should add a whitespace after a prefix/before a suffix in more cases. Comment by fbennett June 26, 2014
• Yes. Just change the style in Document Preferences in the word processor.

  in Changing all citations within a document? Comment by fbennett June 24, 2014
• The bug: unfortunately, the RTF/ODF Scan seems to have stopped working completely for the document I'm working on, when I'm using this facility. I've sent you the failing document. This should be fixed now. The RTF/ODF Scan button goes missing from …

  in [MLZ] Dragging notes into text-editor doesn't produce link-wrappers? Comment by fbennett June 24, 2014
• Yes, but if the sort keys are changed, the bibliography entry form should change to put the date immediately after the author, for readability. The simplest thing would be to explore zotero.org/styles, and find an existing style that does what you …

  in Same author Ref List not in chronological order Comment by fbennett June 23, 2014
• That style sorts by author, then by title. Dates are not used in the sort.

  in Same author Ref List not in chronological order Comment by fbennett June 23, 2014
• What do you mean by "the zotero that I have downloaded"? You should only need Zotero Standalone, and the Zotero connector plugin for your (non-Firefox?) browser.

  in My zotero library is not syncing to my computer Comment by fbennett June 23, 2014
• This is now possible in the CSL processor used In Zotero, but the facility is very new (as in hours new), and it would require some changes in Zotero itself to take advantage of it. http://citationstylist.org/2014/06/20/csl-dynamic-linking-in-citep…

  in Repeating elements to create links Comment by fbennett June 20, 2014
• @bianca11: Would be very surprised to learn that the Zotero style repository is missing a style that is covered by Word's bibliography support. What is the style's name, or what do typical references look like?

  in How to export the bibliography to Word 2010 Comment by fbennett June 20, 2014
• I'll take a look. It's a good idea, and there is no harm in having multiple lines of defense.

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• Could do, but if we apply normalize() to the input, we can avoid the potential for similar glitches elsewhere in the code. It wasn't an oversight particularly -- up until the last couple of Firefox releases, localeCompare() itself was not very relia…

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• Um ... we'd have to look at the style to be sure, but I think what is happening is that the sort is coming out correctly (so localeCompare() is doing its thing -- the author names are treated as equivalent, and the sort is falling over to the title)…

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• The sort is performed with JavaScript localeCompare(), so the byte-level encoding may not be determinative. Once we have str.normalize() to work with, we can add that in the processor and it should come right. (Oh, wait, I get your point. Yes, that…

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• Glad to hear that the fix worked. This problem with mixed encodings should cease to be a problem in the near future.

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• I wonder whether there might be a difference in the encoded form of the í in García. What happens after you manually retype the author name in each of those references (not selecting from the pulldown list, but manually retyping each one)?

  in Incorrect em-dashes in bibliography Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• (Actually, the archive field is already covered by the Abbreviation Filter. If a citation renders the "archive" variable with form="short", an entry should appear in the Abbreviation Filter popup, in the "Series Title, Archive" list.)

  in [MLZ] Dragging notes into text-editor doesn't produce link-wrappers? Comment by fbennett June 18, 2014
• Thanks for checking. With a copy of a document containing a failing reference, we should be able to sort it out. I'll send you a private forum message. (Good point on archive abbreviations. I'll add it to the "Titles" group in the next release, whe…

  in [MLZ] Dragging notes into text-editor doesn't produce link-wrappers? Comment by fbennett June 16, 2014
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