Hello, I’m using Writer along with the Zotero Connector to write my thesis, however every author’s name I’m citing comes out as misspelled and I have to right click it and add it to my dictionary. Is there a way to search for all the misspelled words so I can mass copy and paste into my *.dic or would you suggest a macro instead, also anyone knows how to search for citations (field type?). Thanks!.
Unfortunately, Zotero has deliberately chosen to ignore Writer principles (probably to be portable between suites) and does everything direct formatting (through a set of macros). It messes up all smart usages of Writer features.
If Zotero citations were specifically styled (with paragraph and character styles), you could customise these styles to assign them language “None” so that there are removed from spell checking. But this is not possible.
You’re doomed to your present manual procedure.
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Is there any Reference Manager that fully “integrates” into LibreOffice?
@Roial: if your goal is only to insert references, have a try with the built-in Bibliography feature. It is rather flexible and consequently you need to adapt it to your purpose. However, if you want to manage the references, which is much wider than inserting references, this task goes beyond writing documents. I’d say that writing articles or documents is then a secondary incidental task in this context, a task which comes late in the management workflow. If this is your goal, the Bibliography feature is not the right tool and unfortunately all known “citation managers” focus on the management task and have really deficient integration with Writer (what they do does not matter with Word because Word has less developed typographical features than Writer).
Anyway look at the built-in Bibliography. It is a database. Every reference document can be described by many attributes. The way the reference is inserted can be configured a bit like TOC or index entries (i.e. with keywords representing attributes) so that you can have APA-style or other de facto standard. A word of caution, though: there is only one bibliography database across all your documents because the DB is associated with your user profile.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1222
(I’m not sure if it would work in LO, but it is worth trying).
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And while you are at it, you could modify the code to apply language “None” instead of adding nonsense to the dictionary.
@Villeroy I don’t think you can easily apply language None to Zotero citations because everything is done through macros which direct-format. It is likely that they reformat if they are triggered again after some action on the references, thus erasing user-added formatting.
IMHO, they is the biggest flaw with all these portable extensions and this breaks the Writer style philosophy .
I was referring to the macro at [Solved] Add all underlined words to dictionary (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum which appends entries to the spell checker white list.
I don’t use Zotero. Nevertheless it may be not too complicated to change their macro code to either apply some style (and generate it if missing) or just add another hard formatting (language=None).