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Hi Jon, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've been doing it manually, but wondered what you meant by restoring the default sizes? Do you just mean that it goes back to being full size after I unscan and rescan the document? I suppose a nice feature for better integration with Mellel would allow customizab...

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with this problem, which I have been unable yet to solve from Mellel's side. If I am using MHRA format (http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Boo ... load.shtml) I am required to list the volume number of multi-volume works in small caps. ie. Karl Marx, The Poverty of P...

Hi Jon, It's true that you save nothing if the name is just 'Jones', but when the name's a bit longer, or even dual authors, it can quickly become very inelegant if you are referring to two or three works. (The footnote below, which I just wrote, for example, becomes a pain to read). A further probl...

Thanks Jon, That's what I thought. Or, rather, in a footnote, I'd like to go, very simply: Jones, First Book (Published, 2000); Second Book (Published, 2001). Or, even, to make it clearer: Jones, First Book (Published, 2000); idem , Second Book (Published 2001). I know you think things like this and...

You should just put them into one citation, which would look something like this: {John 1995 #12345; John 2003 #65432} If this John is the same for both books (i.e. same first name and no additional authors), and if you chose the right format, then Bookends can render the citation like you want. Ho...

Thanks Jon,

You're a brick (as they said in the 1950s). I didn't realise I could get the references without authentication. I'll try doing that and will also have a go with the filter and see how it comes along.

D

Hi Jon, Yes that's okay if I'm somewhere with a full subscription, such as in the Library of Congress (where I am right now) but I most often use JSTOR for browsing through subject or author fields, or following links if I'm in other places, in other libraries on public computers, or on my laptop wh...

Hi all, Is anyone out there having sudden difficulty importing references from JSTOR using their default 'citation manager' format? I can't seem to get it working. It used to work fine as RIS. I have a found a work-around using Bibtex and ignoring certain fields (thanks Jon), but does anyone have a ...

Hi Jon, Regarding this ongoing thread, I re-indexed spotlight, as you suggested, but Bookends is still attaching incorrect PDFs, or not finding them at all. I'm emailing you now with a reference and PDF that it can't seem to find. I don't know if this will throw any light on the issue, but I still t...

On a related but different note, although the "Find Local PDF" function is quite clever, it still gets it wrong more often than not. The dialogue box which pops it with different options to attach, when Bookends can't decide between multiple options, is the obvious solution to this. Howeve...

Dear Jon,
Thanks, good advice - can confirm that when Muse exports as 'Endnote' it is, in fact, a perfect RIS file.
Daniel

Dear Jon et al., A couple of related questions: 1) Trying to import citations from Project Muse doesn't seem to work particularly well. Using the Bookends Browser gives a fairly garbled reference which needs complete re-editing. Perhaps it just needs better parsing: I'm not sure. 2) Trying to export...

Hi Jon,
Thanks for the reply,

You're right that Bookends remembers the content of the last Boolean search, but it doesn't remember that it was a Boolean search when switching between catalogues. Anyhow, if it's being phased out this won't matter so much.

Best wishes,
Daniel

Dear Jon et al. I have mentioned this before, but would it please be possible to change the Online Search window so that Boolean (or 'Advanced') searches work better? On almost every imaginable occasion for an online search, one needs to input more than one search term, which means using a Boolean s...

For anyone (or perhaps for Jon and his next update?) who is interested in making an import filter for the UK's National Art Library, they now offer z3950 access and the details are here:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/nal/catalogues/z3950/index.html

Best wishes,
D