@mronkko: This is great news. You’d make quite a number of Scrivenerites happy. While the odf-scan works with Zotero’s multilingual version, I would be absolutely delighted to use a more direct integration with vanilla Zotero. (I’m writing my book using both and maintaining a somewhat fiddly workaround described here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18064/1/please-add-better-integration-with-scrivener/.) Would be happy to help debug as before.
kithairon
Frank Bennett and I have a solution that should hugely improve Zotero/Scrivener interaction. Essentially it allows you to insert Zotero citation markers into Scrivener, Export from Scrivener as .odt and then convert to active Zotero citations. Since this works with unique identifiers, it is much more robust that Zotero’s RTF scan and also fully supports prefix/suffix
See here for download and instructions:
zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/
Hi!
The add-on is a boon and I think one of the significant advances made in the integration of Zotero AND Scrivener.
However, my requirement is a little different.
By using this addon—> using odt scan of Zotero, I get this kind of output:
docs.google.com/document/d/1MjU … UASFY/edit
However, my line of work requires this kind of citations:
docs.google.com/document/d/1EX- … edit?pli=1
If you notice carefully, it works on the simple premise of {author, year} (Note the space between author AND year). I save the document as RTF and RDF/ODT Scan just links the citations, numbers it and simple!
However, this means that I have to manually type in the {author, year} which is additional work. I’d rather use the cmd+Shift+A option on my Mac and finish the work faster.
Is there anyway to tweak the add-on to just get the out as simple as {author, year}?
Apologies for the wall of text but I wanted to be as comprehensive as possible!
THANKS!
I’m not sure I understand you. Are you saying that you don’t want to use {author, date} as the input? How does Cmd+Shift+A replace that? You still need to tell Zotero somehow which reference you are citing, otherwise why use it? So if you use Cmd+Shift+A you are then simply inserting the {author, date} reference into an annotation. If this is the case, then I guess you could set the compile options to keep inline annotations and change the enclosing markers to { and }, but you still have to type “author, date” and you need to press 3 keys (Cmd+Shift+A) instead of 2 (Shift+9) each time. What is the advantage?
Also, I don’t know if Zotero supports drag & drop insertion of references (I know that EndNote, Papers and BookEnds all do) but even if it does using inline annotations in the way described above would prevent use of this feature: Since drag & drop inserts references with the curly brackets, by inserting them into an inline annotation that compiles curly brackets you’d then have nested brackets which Zotero won’t recognise.
I jut checked out Papers2 as well. They have a brilliant system of integrating with the citations in Scrinever. If you have used this, then you’d know.
I think I was fairly comprehensive. By using the plugin, it sets up the the {author, year, zotero citation number} within the curly brackets. However, the final output is not something that serves my needs. I need the output similar to the one in the second link.
By manually looking for the author/year adds complexity to the task whereas copying and pasting the links is easier. I just have to look under the organized file structure and the paper that I wish to cite. Simple.
In what way is the final output from Papers not the way you want? Since you can set the output to match any of several thousand formats, are you sure none meet your needs? The one in their example seems to match your requirements.
support.mekentosj.com/kb/read-wr … uscripts-2
in case stereotactic or anyone else is still following along:
The ODF-Scan plugin only works if you include the last step, i.e. open the ODF document in LibreOffice with an installed Zotero plugin and click “Set Document Preferences”. You can then select any of the many hundreds different citation styles for Zotero zotero.org/styles
More generally, I don’t monitor this thread, so please post to the Zotero forums with any problems.