Hi Rob,
I did check the path as you suggest. It looked funny but is correct.
I guess I'll have to send a message to support. Thank
john
--- On Tue, 12/29/09, Rob Oakes wrote:
> From: Rob Oakes
> Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play
> To: "John Kane"
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 10:23 AM
> Hi John,
>
> Glad to hear that things are working for you. To get
> the sync working,
> all I had to do was go to Tools -> Options -> Zotero
> /CiteULike and
> Click on "Zotero integration" box. Make sure that the
> path to your
> Zotero database is correct (on one of my desktops, a
> Windows 7 box, it
> was filled in automatically and incorrectly).
>
> After that, it *should* just work. (I know that I'm using
> should in a
> very meaningless and dangerous way.) If you have
> problems, you might
> consider sending an email to the Mendeley devs at supp...@mendeley.com
> (or something like that, the correct email is on their
> website; too lazy
> to check it).
>
> I've sent a number of complaints/feature requests and
> they've been very
> good at getting back to me. I've never had to wait
> more than a few
> hours.
>
> To enable the custom citation key, go to Tools ->
> Options -> Document
> Details and then Click on "Citation Key".
>
> One other point, keep in mind that only changes in Zotero
> are synced to
> Mendeley. It doesn't seem to work in reverse (or at
> least not yet).
> So, if you need to change things, make sure to do it in
> Zotero. For my
> Zotereo citations, the only bit of information I add is a
> citation key
> (since Zotero doesn't let me do that).
>
> Even with the limitations, I've been very happy with
> Mendeley. I've
> been working on a book project for the past few months and
> it has been
> invaluable for keeping my references and PDFs
> organized. Throw in the
> ability to sync with Zotero (which I use to grab websites),
> the indexed
> and complete text search, the OpenOffice integration (I
> still think that
> Zotero does this better, but I'm not going to complain) and
> I've been a
> very happy camper.
>
> If I can help with anything else, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:01 -0800, John Kane wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > Progress report. I reinstalled Mandeley and it seems
> to be working well. I also installed a Foxfire sql manager
> extension which may or may not have cured the Qt4 SQlite
> plugin problem. The only reference I could find about it was
> on Kubuntu not Windows.
> >
> > However, how do I get it to sync with Zotero
> properly? It seems to have nicely imported all the
> collection names that I have in Zotero but none of the
> references!
> >
> > On the other hand I just had it import all the pdf's
> of journal articles I had stored in a folder and it
> performed wonderfully. :) It's now on my watched
> folder list. Wonderful!
> >
> > At the moment if I can get the Mandeley-Zotero sync to
> work properly the two look to be extremely complimentary
> products.
> >
> > Many thanks for the
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 12/28/09, John Kane
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: John Kane
> > > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A
> Problem not a baseball play
> > > To: "Rob Oakes"
> > > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > > Received: Monday, December 28, 2009, 3:40 PM
> > > Thanks Rob. I remember looking
> > > at Mendeley just after installing Zotero and
> deciding not to
> > > try two at the same time.
> > >
> > > I've installed Mendeley and it loads but I'm now
> getting
> > > the message:
> > >
> > > "It appears that you have Qt installed on your
> system, but
> > > do not have
> > > the sqlite plugin installed, which Mendeley
> requires. \
> > > Please install the Qt4 sqlite plugin, in order to
> use
> > > Mendeley.
> > > If you are using a Debian-based system, such as
> Ubuntu,
> > > this is the
> > > libqt4-sql-sqlite package, and can be
> installed with
> > > command 'apt-get install libqt4-sql-sqlite'.
> > > Alternatively,
> > > remove your system Qt libraries, and Mendeley
> will use
> > > bundled copies."
> > >
> > > So now all I have to do if figue out if I do have
> Qt
> > > installed ( I find lots of Qt files in MikTex and
> Lyx so I
> > > must have it somewhere) and track down the
> SQlite
> > > plugin. Closer all the time!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Sun, 12/27/09, Rob Oakes
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Rob Oakes
> > > > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx:
> A Problem
> > > not a baseball play
> > > > To: "'John Kane'"
> > > > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > > > Received: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 4:55
> PM
> > > > Hi John,
> > > >
> > > > By default, Zotero produces atrocious
> looking
> > > BibTeX.
> > > > By far the ugliest
> > > > offenders, as you have noticed, are in the
> citation
> > > > keys. It uses weird
> > > > character encodings (I'm frankly not even
> sure what
> > > they
> > > > are), that can'
