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I posted on an older thread about this and got no responses, so thought I'd try re-posting it as a new topic. After checking out Bookends and Sente, and ending up very disappointed in the former and wary of the latter -- there seemed to be lots of unresolved issues on their forum -- I've decided to stick with Zotero.

I'm wondering what the current status of Nisus' integration with Zotero is. I gather there was an issue regarding RTF scanning at one time. Has that been resolved? Also wonder if in light of Zotero's announcement of plans to offer a significantly expanded application programming interface http://www.zotero.org/blog/zoteros-next-big-step/ Nisus is considering taking steps to integrate more directly with Zotero.

Thanks

Eric Weir wrote:I'm wondering what the current status of Nisus' integration with Zotero is. I gather there was an issue regarding RTF scanning at one time. Has that been resolved?

It should be resolved now. We changed the way Nisus Writer saves curly braces in RTF so Zotero shouldn't get confused anymore. I don't know if Zotero ever fixed their RTF scanning to handle the other way curly braces can be emitted in RTF, but so long as you're using Nisus Writer Pro 1.3.1 or later you should be fine.

Also wonder if in light of Zotero's announcement of plans to offer a significantly expanded application programming interface http://www.zotero.org/blog/zoteros-next-big-step/ Nisus is considering taking steps to integrate more directly with Zotero.

We don't have anything underway at the moment, but are always looking for ways to help our users work with other tools.

martin wrote:We don't have anything underway at the moment, but are always looking for ways to help our users work with other tools.

Thanks, Martin. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I just switched to mac and have tried all of the different word processors out there, but NWP is easily the best. I even like it better than my trusted old windows version of Word, and I didn't think that was possible.

There is only one thing I'm missing in NWP and that is integration with Zotero. I've looked into Bookends and Sente. Sente looks amazing, and it imported my Zotero library very quickly and easily. But it's not free like Zotero is, and its integration with NWP is no better than Zotero's. Bookends seems fine, and the integration with NWP would be great, but I can't figure out how to import my Zotero library. When I google "how to import zotero library into bookends" all I can find is people trying to switch from bookends to Zotero. That makes me think Zotero must be better somehow. It's kind of like when you google "how to switch from mac to pc". Nobody does that. One last thing is that Zotero is introducing Android support which is really important to me, and that's something I assume Bookends will never do.

So, I need to stick with Zotero, but I also really want to adopt NWP as my new word processor. For that reason, I would LOVE to see some sort of better integration between the two. I'd even be willing to put in some time helping to make it happen. I have a tiny amount of programming experience, so I would need help from someone who actually knows what they're doing, but whatever work it takes would be worth it to me to see this happen.

Two good people from the Zotero crowd have built a plug-in that allows the insertion of bibliographical citation markers into Nisus docs. The references stored in Zotero can be pasted as markers into any .odt file. After the scan via Zotero's new plugin the citations in your Nisus document have a live link to your bibliographical repository in Zotero and can be formatted with the thousands of CSL-styles available to fit just about any bibliographical specs your publisher or university may have.This new odf-scan is much more reliable than the old rtf-scan function as it a) works with unique identifiers and b) leaves you with a final live link to Zotero's references, meaning your footnotes can be updated and if needed reformatted in any other bibliographical style with a single click. The plugin for Zotero - together with a description of the process – can be found here: http://zotero-odf-scan.github.io/zotero-odf-scan/. Another description is here: http://zoteromusings.wordpress.com/
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