On Mon 23 May 2011, Stefan Müller wrote:
Okay, then I should definitely take a look at JabRef. Anyhow, maybe I'm naive here, but I don't see a reason why Zotero should support BibTeX Strings. If I type the BibTeX file manually, sure. But Zotero reads the (e.g.) Journal names from the corresponding websites, so there should be no need to replace those with abbreviations. Is it because I don't understand BibTeX strings?
I believe that one advantage is adding a level of indirection for journal naming: you can have, for example, one definition file which defines JISN as ‘Journal of Inconveniently Sesquepedalian Nomenclature’, and another defining it as ‘J. Inc. Ses. Nom.’, and switch between different definition files according to publisher requirements, space restrictions, and so on. Pont