If the user is trying to edit a citation, then we could check only the area surrounding the cursor for links. Sounds pretty bad, but that's the best I can think of atm. However, if you wanted to find all citations/links in the document, you could essentially go through the document character by character and check if there is a link set there. Interacting with links is not very convenient, since they would be set on a segment of text without any easy way of retrieving them directly. The add-on would then offer an option to strip links (same as removing field codes). Also this system would complicate other operations (editing, deleting references, etc.)Īnother possibility that is available is inserting pre-formatted citations as links and storing the reference ID as the URL (bonus points: it redirects to the reference on ). I suppose you could use two bookmarks to indicate start and end of a citation, but it becomes easy for the user to delete only one of the bookmarks and mess up this syntax. Bookmarks exist, but are associated with a single position in text, not a range of text. Unfortunately, in Google Docs field codes do not exist. If we end up displaying the id to the user, then it's essentially the same as ODF scan. The general idea is to display a pre-formatted in-text citation and associate a Zotero ID with it in a user-invisible fashion (same as is done in Word/LO with fields and bookmarks). I started looking around at the Google Docs add-on API and I think it may be possible. While that's true, it would be quite nice to eventually add proper Zotero integration into Google Docs, which should be equivalent to Word/LO addons (i.e. As adamsmith explained in this post, you can essentially do the same thing using drag-and-drop from Zotero. This resulted in a few people on Twitter and in the forums requesting that a similar feature for Zotero be added to Google Docs.
Google recently introduced add-ons for Google Documents, among which is an EasyBib add-on that essentially inserts a pre-formatted bibliography into Google Docs documents. I just want to get a technical conversation going about Zotero integration with Google Docs.
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