Re: [libreoffice-users] copy and paste zotero citations within writer document

On 01/10/2011, Jason Paul Joines <jason@joines.org> wrote:
>      I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.3 with Zotero 2.1.10, Zotero
> OpenOffice.org Integration 3.5b1 extension and FireFox 7.0.1 on Kubuntu
> 11.04.
>
>      If I copy text containing citations and paste it within an existing
> document, the fields are lost so the citations just become plain text.
> Then if I change the citation style, citations in the pasted text are
> not updated.  So, after pasting I have to go re-insert every citation in
> the pasted text.

This is most likely due to the citation style referring to unique data
in the bibliography; copying text between documents cannot update the
bibliography database (sqlite?) that zotero uses to store references.

This action poses the question: why are you copying text from
elsewhere? Isn't this plagiarism? ;)

What is the type of originating document?

>      Is there any setting in LibreOffice that will take care of this?

Doubtful. Using a word processor for technical documentation including
formal citations is a very bad idea; it is simply a poor tool for the
job. m$ is terrible, LO not much better. Nothing comes close to the
LaTeX/BibTeX paradigm; use it, perhaps with LyX as the word-processor
style of interface.

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