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Hi,

I work such that I enter manual citations almost exclusively - usually just author and date, but sometimes if the same author has multiple publications from the same year, I add a few words from the title. Or sometimes I'll just type in the title. It's just easiest for me to work this way.

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Hi all,

I've just started playing a bit with the syncing feature (thank you so much for putting it in, Jon) and had a question before I start trying to implement it as SOP in our lab.

We fit into the third "user scenario" in the user guide - we are a work group in which everyone can add to a ...

Ahhh... It is, but only on private servers, not refbase.org. Sorry for the confusion.

Right - sorry to keep bringing it up. I'm glad it's even being considered.

The only thing I wanted to say in this thread was to do with attachments specifically - in the event that syncing does get implemented, I didn't see the rationale for not including them.

As for refbase, I'm certainly will to explore syncing through refbase with Matthias. It wouldn't sync attachments, of course. And there are a lot of other issues I can think of.

I'm not sure why not syncing attachments is a necessary limitation. Copyright issues are important, obviously, but ...

Just to confirm, then:

If I go into my attachment folder now, and reorganize it as I see fit with new subfolders, this should not create any problems for my current database?

Thanks for your reply, Matthias.

I had some further thoughts about how Bookends might be able to handle something resembling true syncing with a refbase-based database (or another web solution, for that matter). I apologize if these are totally unrealistic, just trying to get the thoughts out there ...

One follow-up question - in the "Edited Book" format, there doesn't seem to be a way to add the book's volume number (for books in a series). Am I missing something?

There are a few things I would really like to be able to do that I don't think Bookends currently allows. So here's my wish list

1 - It would be very nice to be able to select text within attachments in Bookends.

2 - If text selection was possible, then a feature like Pages' "match" feature ...

I'm glad that Jon (and others) are still thinking about this issue. Having skimmed over the Refbase page, and played a tiny bit with the Bookends server feature, I'm not really sure what is possible. So let me give you my ideal scenario and maybe someone can tell me if this is possible with the ...

Right, but I'm not looking to format the regular citation. I mean the additional text that I can add by using \....\ - is there a way of italicizing one or two words between the backslashes, as a purely one-off thing? The reason I want this is to be able to editorialize within the citation brackets ...

Hi,

Is there any way to format additional text within citations - lets say I want it to italicize one word?

Thanks

I'll give your suggestion a try and let you know if it doesn't work. Thanks a lot!

The other request is here:
http://www.sonnysoftware.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=692&highlight=ibid


I've always used "ibid" in in-text citations in the past, and it seems that at least some others do. See
http ...

Hi,

I'm having a very simple "ibid." problem - it seems to have stopped working altogether. I click on "for repeated citations use" and enter "ibid" in the field. I then close the window, but when I scan a document full citations appear whether or not they are the same document as the previous ...

Thanks for the quick reply - didn't even bother checking the user's guide this time as I assumed it must be a bug, just goes to show me that Jon is all-knowing .