besides, *every* pdf reader I know at least has a typewriter/text tool

*When I was writing research papers in college in the early 1970s I went to the library with a stack of index cards and used a book that was a printed index to find literature. There was no such thing

What do you mean by “ the keyboard doesn't work when I'm using comment tools (such as Typewriter)”?

Now, a PDF in Zotero correctly opens with Foxit Reader, but the keyboard doesn't work when I'm using comment tools (such as Typewriter) while it works fine outside Zotero.

At that time papers were typed on a typewriter -- often based on a footnote style (Chicago). Revisions required retyping the text from the point of the change to the end.

I can't speak for other Zotero users but for me, a little bit of hand editing is okay. [I grew up when a literature search required index cards and looking at printed index books (if the journals you

Is there anyway for Zotfile to extract typewriter/textbox annotations from PDFs? Right now, Zotfile ignores these annotations, though it works flawlessly for highlighted text and for text inserted via

from every scientific discipline. I had to use a typewriter to type my paper. Formatting the body of the paper with citations was tedious. Serious errors might require retyping several pages to make

Thank you for the note, and I did not take your advice as harsh. That being said, I am 52 years old and grew up using a typewriter and not a computer; in fact, all through college. I do consider mys

Back then manuscripts were written on a typewriter. References were formatted by hand.

This follows from when everything was print and manuscripts were written on a typewriter to be proofed and typeset.

* Straight (typewriter-style) single-quotes are used.

Perhaps species names was a bad example. Most, if not all, styles that involve underlining give a choice of underlining or italics. (Underlining is a hold out from the typewriter days.)

I was supposed to take typing in he eight grade on a manual typewriter. No way I told the teacher and held up my hands. After school that day I went to the guidance counselor. I started to explain my

I don't know if this is a bug report or a feature request, but it's very important to historians. Otherwise, we have to go to the extracted annotations and change every note, page by page. (But to the

I don't know if this is a bug report or a feature request, but it's very important to historians. Otherwise, we have to go to the extracted annotations and change every note, page by page. (But to the

I wish you hadn't told me that. It's depressing on so many levels. Up next: papers have to be typed with a mechanical typewriter to prevent copy&paste. I'm going to curl up in a corner and cry now.

-and typewriter

1) You can just copy the Firefox profile from your main computer on an USB stick and copy it to the typewriter

I have an old PowerPC Powerbook that I use as a portable typewriter. I have pulled the airport card as a commitment device, and thus the machine has no access to the web. I'd like to port Zotero over