Style/Font Behavior In WP Plugins

[ahoward]

This is based on my discoveries following up on this thread: ​http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4185/changing-font-preference/

Some of the confusion here seems to be just that we have not been clear on how the plugin uses styles, but there are some inconsistencies. I'll describe all the behavior and we can discuss how it needs to be changed, if at all.

All Plugins: The style of an in-text citation is taken from the line of text in which the citation occurs. Any changes to the style of the text or the citation results in changes to both.

Word 2007 (Win): If the font of the citation is changed manually, without changing the style, clicking the Zotero Refresh button reverts the style to that of the text. (Note: The citation reverts to the style of the line of text, not the font, if that has been changed.) This is not the case in OpenOffice or Word 2008.

OpenOffice (Any) / Word 2007 (Win): Bibliographies are created in the active style, not necessarily the default. If the style or font of a section of the bibliography is changed, clicking the Zotero Refresh button reverts to the style of the entire bibliography.

Word 2008 (Mac): Bibliographies are always created in 12pt Times New Roman. Changes in the style or font are reverted on Refresh.

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I'm not sure how we really want all this to behave. Is it possible for the WP plugins to automatically create and default to styles which can be edited through the Zotero Document Preference? Maybe give the option of using either the Zotero style or whatever the WP is using?

Other (much more complicated) requests have been made regarding fonts/styles in citations. How much do we want to address? Plugin style support would at least be a step in this direction.

​http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/907/word-pluginzotero-feature-request-flexible-commentary-in-footnotes-via-flexible-fonts/

[simon]

(In [6239]) closes #1493, Style/Font Behavior In WP Plugins
closes #1325, better integration with word-processor styles

WinWord plug-in update is still to come

[simon]

(In [6241]) references #1493, Style/Font Behavior in WP Plugins
references #1325, better integration with word-processor styles

Integration changes for WinWord plug-in