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LyZ seems to work just fine with the new Zotero Standalone 3.0b1. I’ve tested it lightly on Linux only, so please use with caution and let me know what does not work. I will try to find time soon and get it working.

To install, open Zotero Standalone, go to Tools > Addons and click on the “mixer” icon on top and click “Install Add-on from file..” and choose the downloaded lyz-2.1.4.xpi.

Download lyz-2.1.4.xpi

This update fixes problems with Update Bibtex when document contains items that have been duplicated in Zotero. Zotero assigns special ID to every item and LyZ only looks at these IDs. So if you have two identical books in your, e.g. two “Richard Dawkins 2006 The God Delusion“, they will be treated as two different items. Since you might not notice you have two of those, you might have cited both in your document and then delete one later. Another possibility is that you have deleted the same item and added it into Zotero again, which would result in different IDs as well. “Update Bibtex” couldn’t handle either of these scenarios.

This version of LyZ works around this problem in the following way. Since it is not possible to identify the items automatically, user is presented with the BibTeX key of the deleted item. If you are using “readable” keys such as “dawkins2006thegod” then you simply wait for the update to finish (the item is deleted both from LyZ database and your BibTeX file) and simply cite the item again. If you cannot identify the item from the BibTeX key, you need to track it down in LyX document. This is also relatively easy, because the bibtex entry for this item is missing, but the citations are still in the document.

Please download the new version here:

LyZ 2.1.2