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Hi Jon. I have a customized bibliography format that contains the publication date as well as the original date of publication. It looks like this for a book: a ({u11/}d). t. l: u. and like this for a book chapter: a ({u11/}d). t. $In $e$ $($ed.^^eds.$), v, u14, p-. l: u. In Bookends 12 that works o...

Great! Thanks a lot.

Hi. My custom citation looks like this: a {u11/}d I have checked to use et al. if > 2 Authors/eds after first name AND that et. al should be italicized. If, under these conditions, when entering a citation into Mellel, I also choose the option to put the author in front, the citation will look like ...

Thanks Jon. I think this would be a great option to have.

Yes, but if my custom citation looks like this:
i.e. if it only uses author, date and original publishing date -- shouldn't that be enough for Bookends to figure out that this is in fact a modified author-date set-up? No titles or anything else that could get confusing.

Dear Jon, it seems to me that there is no way to use year-only for repeated authors if one creates a custom citation option. My custom citation format is basically author-date, but I have to use it because I need original dates of publication in addition to modern editions. In the basic author-date ...

Hi Jon, In Citation Options, I use Sort by Year to order grouped citations. This is very useful because I don't have to worry about it when I am entering citations, I can add additional citations later etc. But I now find it very important to indicate the original date of publication for some older ...

Hi, a typical journal formatting looks something like this: a (d) t, j, v(i): p-. the problem i am seeing now is that if i have a journal which has only volume - v - but no issue - i -, the formatted reference does not contain the colon before the page numbers, bur rather lumps together the volume a...

Actually, this turned out to be pretty easy to do. Here's what I did in case somebody else is also interested. To highlight temporary citations in a Word 2011 doc, I created a macro in Word that highlights anything it finds between citation delimiters (in my case { and }). Sub test() ' ' test Macro ...

Thanks, Jon. Thanks for the shortcuts link -- it works. And I just realized, that's exactly what Zotero does out of the box. Now, for my highlighting question, I am far from suggesting the type of object that one finds in Mellel. I am really talking only about highlighting -- i.e. a very superficial...

Hi, I have to questions about the Bookends/Word 2011 interface. 1. Would it be possible for Bookends to include shortcuts for the Apple Script, preferably the same that are used in Mellel? (Zotero Standalone does exactly that -- the shortcuts appear in the Apple Script menu). 2. Would it be possible...

yup. it turns out that finder only lets you access ftp servers as read only -- apple wants it that way, there is no way around it in finder. i've installed macfusion ( http://www.macfusionapp.org/ ) which lets you mount ftp and ssh servers as if they were local, so now i don't have permission issues...

thanks a lot jon, adding the .bdb suffix made it possible to select the remote db. I can also open it if I want to, so the grayed out mystery is solved. now, when I try to sync, I get the error message "Sync failed because the remote database BibliographyDB.bdb is locked". still one step a...

Hi, I'm trying to set up a remote database that I will use to sync both my desktop and my laptop with. So I manually uploaded a copy of my db to an ftp server, I have the read, write and execute privileges in the folder called bookends, which contains the db, on that server. So, in Bookends, I am tr...

thanks, jon.
rebuilding did the trick. the label search also works (it didn't before i rebuilt the db).
many thanks.
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