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by martinz
Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:03 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends doesn't implement settings/format changes I make
Replies: 2
Views: 1990

Re: Bookends doesn't implement settings/format changes I make

I just noticed that scanning a document seems to yield DIFFERENT results based on whether I get Bookends to create a bibliography after scanning! This seems very odd, since the bibliography (and its format) should have nothing at all to do with the format of in-text citations!
by martinz
Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:53 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Bookends doesn't implement settings/format changes I make
Replies: 2
Views: 1990

Bookends doesn't implement settings/format changes I make

Hi, several times, it has happened to me now that when I fiddled around with custom formats and/or general settings in order to fine-tune the appearance of my final documents, Bookends did not start using the changes I specified (usually, I don't notice this right away and think I am doing something...
by martinz
Thu May 07, 2009 5:56 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: empty citation brackets after document scanning
Replies: 2
Views: 1981

Re: empty citation brackets after document scanning

Thanks for your help! I figured it out now -
by martinz
Sat May 02, 2009 10:55 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: empty citation brackets after document scanning
Replies: 2
Views: 1981

empty citation brackets after document scanning

Hi – I have the following problem: I cite a lot of documents that have no authors, dates, or pagination. In these cases, Bookends replaces the temporary intext citation with an empty bracket during the scan. Why doesn't Bookends use the documents title or short title in that case? I can't figure it ...
by martinz
Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:03 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: empty 'new document' after scanning in word 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2625

Re: empty 'new document' after scanning in word 2008

it seems that the clipboard is empty after the scanning process – pasting into a new document does not produce anything (tried it in other applications such as textedit, too). also, after the scanning process, the 'show clipboard' command in bookends shows an empty box. the odd thing is that the sca...
by martinz
Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: Bookends
Topic: empty 'new document' after scanning in word 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2625

empty 'new document' after scanning in word 2008

Hi. I've so far been very happy w/ Bookends – I read the manual, ran some little tests, tried scanning shorter documents just to see how it works. All was well. So in the process of writing, I've built up a larger database. Now today, I tried scanning a larger document for the first time (Word 2008,...