Instructions for Exporting to Word with "live" Zotero Citations

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I wrote up a guide for beginners who want to work in Obsidian but then export their document to Word, with Zotero citations seamlessly moving from one app to the other so that they remain editable with the Zotero plugin for Word.

I saw some other guides, but they either had a lot of unnecessary steps, or they skipped stuff that wouldn’t be obvious to beginners.

I welcome any feedback or suggestions!

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Hey thanks for the guide!
my H1,H2 and H3 titles have are being added a bracket at he beginning. do you also have this issue?

also I use comments like this one %% comment here %% . is there a way to tell the filter to avois all the content inside those?

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Hi @Luhmann,
Thanks for sharing. I could follow your - very clear- tutorial but the export fails. The error message says “Error running filter <My_path_to_lua_filter>: cannot read <My_path_to_lua_filter> is a directory”.
Just to check, does this method still works on your end?

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EDIT:
I don’t know whether it is specific to my setup but I solved it by modifying the “extra arguments” command from
--lua-filter=/Users/[name of your user folder]/Documents/obsidian2word
to
--lua-filter=/Users/[name of your user folder]/Documents/obsidian2word/zotero.lua