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Thanks Dan. I'm sending an RDF that hangs on import on to support. My upload's very slow, so it will take a while ...
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A typical export breakage is results in an empty RDF file, and the error: [JavaScript Error: "[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520008 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS) [nsILocalFile.create]" nsresult: "0x80520008 (NS_ERROR_FILE_AL…
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It's got to be the worst, most widely deployed piece of software in history. Well, yes. So much for the wisdom of the crowd, eh? OTOH, what facilities Word does offer for real structured documents (ie. styles) are almost uniformly ignored by Word…
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Thanks for all the responses. For the most part it looks feasible as I'm talking about short papers, nothing thesis- or book-like in length or complexity. However: It is perfectly fine and I would recommend using it as long as you don't need to co…
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Reciprocal thanks for pointing out -mno-cygwin, which I hadn't come across before. I'm happy enough using cygwin, but it's very handy to have a windows executable that's easier to launch from other windows apps.
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Sorry, you're right, I included the wrong link. 2.48 compiled on cygwin without modification for me, and is available on CTAN (or linked from http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/). I get the impression that it isn't really maintained…
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I use bibtool (http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool.en.html) for cleaning up various aspects of Zotero's bibtex output (it can alter capitalisation, choose which fields to include, sort, etc), and creating my desired key format. There…
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fbennett: no offense taken, and I do see the point you're making. It does all seem quite nightmarishly complex: I'm glad I'm just a user! Now back to finishing typing Czicksentmihalyi ...
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fbennett: I haven't followed this whole thread, but writing as someone who uses LaTeX/BibTex for producing citations, I'd say that typing names in would for me not be so much a 'hassle', as error-prone. It seems like just the kind of process that co…
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4GPro: well, we just disagree then. I can't see that their natural target audience is in the slightest bit fazed by having to type 3 pieces of information into a dialogue. It's moot anyway as ultimately the zotero folks will decide their own market …
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4GPro: using a webdav service is no more difficult than signing up for web-based email or Facebook, both heavily used by the "broader population". Frankly, a reference manager isn't going to be of much use to someone more thick than the average Fac…
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4GPro: zotero already does work with commercially-available cloud storage, seamlessly so far in my experience. I don't understand the problem. Who's 'pissing and moaning' (to use your charming phrase), and what about?
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Perhaps the zotero guys can reduce liability to being hostages to fortune by a bit of bluntness here. Zotero is a Firefox add-on. Developing a free Firefox add-on does not thereby commit anyone to also producing free dishwashers, perpetual motion m…
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Thanks schwarzjr.
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And the same reply! In principle, should automatic pdf download work when connected via a proxy? I would have thought so.
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I have access via my university's proxy (ezproxy), so can download the pdf manually, then attach it to the zotero item. But it doesn't attach automatically for me.
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Don't know, RDF's just an acronym to me .. The workaround's good. Thanks.
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Will do.
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Fair enough. It could be useful though even if imperfect. The harvested references could be automatically cleaned up by comparing with a canonical source, where available, perhaps?
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Thank you -- that did work for me. So I guess it must the sites I tend to use must be ones that don't easily allow the translator to grab a pdf.
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Junk data's a possibility, but I suspect that's equally so with the pdf metadata extraction that Zotero currently has. Keeping a zotero server-based store for tuning might help (I think Mendeley does this with its metadata extraction).
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I'm deeply disappointed to note that the zotero devs have wilfully chosen to ignore wget. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is clearly no more than a slick marketing slogan.
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Mark, how do you get emails into Zotero? I haven't found a way that's very practical.
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I'm disappointed, Dan. I liked the thought of my zotero stuff being in an Albanian basement, and am clearly going to have to seek exoticism elsewhere.
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The basic search field already searches tags, and you can also choose to search by tag in the advanced search.
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Right, thanks. It looks like the problem was an outage of Rackspace's 'Cloud Files' servers. This would have affected any users of Jungledisk who have opted for Rackspace storage (as opposed to Amazon S3).
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Right, makes sense. Is there a way of me finding out which operation is causing this, so I might know what to look for on the server?
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Worked for me. Thanks.
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What happens if you forget to or can't export before the ship has sunk? Google is "too big to fail," but POP & IMAP would do you no good if you hadn't already downloaded all your mail through one of them if their servers went down. True, but t…
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noksagt: the risk argument is often raised against closed source. But in practise the risk is in proportion to openness regarding data. I don't find it unacceptably risky to use closed-source gmail, because it supports IMAP and POP, so I can extrica…