Zotero- Word Integration

AnnaKatarzyna

Hi,
I am a new user of Zettlr (version 4.1.0) and am still testing how the software works.
It seems that Zettlr would be a match for my needs, simple but with all the needed tools I can imagine. I cannot, however, figure out how to export to a Word file set so I can interact with Zotero references. Now I get a static bibliography, which work fine, but doesn't allow to edit easily the bibliography. I enjoy working with LaTeX and Markdown, but my colleagues do not have the necessary skills.
Apparently, this was possible in the previous version, which ones? Is it possible to get this capability in the newer version, like the installed 4.1.0?

hendrik

Hi, glad to have you on board!

Exporting citations from Markdown files to Word in such a way that they still are editable is not, and has never been, possible out of the box.

The reason is the following: To make citations editable in Word, the Zotero plugin creates fields which contain all the necessary information and which can be used to customize the citations if necessary. Pandoc itself does not have a built-in way to generate these fields.

In theory, it would be possible to write code to transform the citeproc syntax from Markdown to such Zotero fields, but I assume that it would be a considerable programming effort to implement that.

AnnaKatarzyna

Thanks for the quick answer!
It is a pity to hear that it isn't possible to export to Word with active references.

adunning

Here is a script using BetterBibTeX and Pandoc to create a Word document with live Zotero citations:

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/pandoc/index.html#from-markdown-to-zotero-live-citations

hendrik

Ohh, I didn't know about this. Thank you!

talestomaz

Absolutely no code background here. This functionality would be very good for me! How can I apply this script to have the combo Zettlr/LibreOffice/Zotero behaving like this? Thanks!

hendrik

talestomaz Very easy: The page gives you all information you need. First, you have to download the corresponding Lua-filter. That's just a text file with some code that will do what you want to have. You can add/edit Lua filters in your assets manager. Then, the page also tells you what you have to write into the YAML frontmatter of your files to make it work.

Zettlr will automatically run all filters that you have created in the assets manager on every export, so the filter will be automatically picked up, and it will behave according to the page.

For any additional info regarding how to use Lua filters and YAML frontmatters, the Zettlr documentation has got you covered!

talestomaz

hendrik I wanna cry... this works! First of all, I didn't even know what 'assets manager' is, but I found it in the Zettlr documentation. I created a filter and pasted the content. Didn't edit any YAML (which btw I never did, also new to me).

I'm wondering if there's also something similar to transform the links of citations in Zotero annotations into Pandoc @ citation. This would close the circle for me. I can transform a Zotero annotation into a Zettlr note, I can use that note to produce my texts, finally I can transform those texts in an ODT document.