VICTORY!
I’ve got a version to work!
Only with the most basic lua command, and only with limited formatting options, but it works! YAY!
What was wrong?
It turns out the problem was here:
I had this set to the ‘Markdown’ template.
Why did I do a silly thing like that?
Because a) I didn’t notice ‘Word’ buried in the long list of options, and b) you are asked to select what format you want to convert it to each time you export a file:
Why would it ask you to select your format each time you export a file if that answer is already predetermined, by being locked in from the settings menu? That doesn’t make any sense, so I assumed the template setting was for some other mysterious purpose.
What arguments have I got to work?
At present, only this:
--lua-filter zotero.lua
(yes, I changed the file name back to ‘zotero.lua’ once I learned that it was arbitrary and only had to match in the two places)
What don’t I have working?
If I add even just –metadata=zotero_csl-style:“apa” to my additional arguments field, I get a pop-up error notice. It lists out the (very very long) command it submitted to pandoc, and then adds: “Unknown option -m. Unknown option -e. Try pandoc.exe --help for more information”.
For the record, when I try using the --citeproc command (with the --bibliography tag, etc) I get this same verbose error window, except now the last line reads: “Citeproc: citation cathelat_2019 not found”. I’m not going to bother troubleshooting that, but it is presumably solvable.
What this formatting can and can’t do
YES: “(Jones, 2024)”
YES: “(Jones, 2024; Conquerer, 1066)”
NO: “People like Jones (2024) have argued…”
NO: “(see, for example, Jones, 2024)”
To be fully usable for academic writing it would need to cover all of those options, but that is a battle for another day. Presumably, adding these will require a more sophisticated version of the lua code.
Tidy up answers to @Feralflora on prior miscommunications
All due apologies for the zotero.lua/pandoc.lua naming confusion. I’m sure I wrote the wrong thing in one line, and that set off a cascade of misunderstanding.
When I click the link to the lua filter it takes me to a page that shows the lua code in plain text. I don’t get any options to download the file directly by right-clicking the link, so my only option was to open the page, ‘select all’, and then paste it into an empty text file.
And, to be fair, that did seem to work in the end 