Zotero & LibreOffice-Word citation issue

answered 2013-03-02 11:03:03 +0200

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updated 2013-03-02 11:03:03 +0200

aurimas
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Here's the most recent forum thread about this on zotero.org for future reference http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25552/intercompatability-between-word-and-libreoffice/ The second post might be helpful.

To quote,

you can't use bookmarks for note-based styles like Chicago manual. And the only way to co-author with Word and Libre Office is to use bookmarks.

I cannot find a reference to the exact bug, but the problem arises from a bug in OOo where bookmarks were (are?) somehow mangled when placed inside footnotes. I'll ask the Zotero devs to elaborate more on the exact problem. Perhaps this has already been fixed in recent LO releases.

The earliest post I could find that referenced this bug is from Dec 23, 2008, which also provides some steps to reproduce (that unfortunately no longer work due to changes in Zotero) http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/5152/in-oo-repeated-first-char-when-refreshing-after-odt-is-saved-as-doc/

answered 2013-02-24 21:38:19 +0200

qubit
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Hi @kleonard,

I'm not exactly sure what's preventing interoperability between LO and Word, and I'm not sure if this is something that should be taken up with LO's dev team or with Zotero's (or both?).

Could you please provide some clarification?

Useful info would include

• An example document that exhibits these problems with interoperability
• Versions of LO, Word, and Zotero on which you can reproduce this/these problem(s)
• Specific steps to reproduce the problem(s)

Feel free to provide more information here or to file a bug in the bugtracker (if we can't find a workaround for you, we'll send you there eventually).

Please post a link to any bugs you file in a comment below using the format "fdo#123456".

Thanks!