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In the forums, one finds a lot of reports about plugin failures, many of them caused by broken dependencies, due to differences in platforms and software versions / integrations. It would be advantageous to have a fallback solution in case the word-processor plugin fails. All those who can export in RTF would benefit immediately. Those who use alternative word-processors (AbiWord etc.) would also get a chance to use automatic citation features. It seems simpler (at least to me as a non-developer) to improve and maintain RTF-scan than to improve and maintain different plugins for (all versions of) all word-processors that are currently in use. Despite this fact, there are good reasons to push its development: The fact that this feature does not attract many users is probably due to the fact that it is not well known and does not work very well right now. I agree with those who argued that RTF-scan should have a much higher priority. This more technical discussion ( ) is maybe a helpful source for developers. rtfscan in zotero) you are able to convert a text written with endnote to a text with citations in zoterostyle and backwards provided that everybody has the citied literature. With only two clicks (1.covert to unformatted in endnote 2. I think rtfscan or additional plaintext scan ( ) is a possible approach or at least a workaround to bridge the current or probably perpetual situation that there is no citation standard and also that many people who are working together using different citation manager. Additional it would be helpful for interoperability between different office solutions and OSs. Because I think the rtfscan feature is an easy solution for Citation Compatibility with endnote and other reference manger (like discussed here: or similar here: and here: ).

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I hope there is a developer who will improve the rtf scan to full functionality. the Lyz plugin) or as a patch/addition to the current Zotero. On the other hand it's something that could easily be worked on by an independent interested developer, either as a plugin (see e.g. dealing with old documents created by a different bib software, but in the medium run those cases are going to be relatively rare, too.Īnd considering that there are a whole bunch of rather essential features that have yet to be implemented - I'd say duplicate detection, batch-editing, and the implementation of the new CSL processor are the top three, with better note management a runner up - I just don't think this has super high priority.

I realize that your case is a different usage scenario - i.e. The number of people in academia who don't work with either Word, Ooo, or LaTeX/Lyx is just very small, so my sense (based on talking to users and observing what is asked on the forum) is simply that RTF scan isn't used all that much. That means that a) yes, RTF scan doesn't work perfectly and b) most people don't use it: Also, the RTF scan is not a feature that has so far been heavily developed - I think partly because as it works now there are just some inherent limitations - I think there is a case to be made for Zotero to be able to work with some type of citation key, and that has been discussed, but it entails a whole larger set of issues and I don't think is on the short-term agenda.

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