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Jon
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Bookends remains useless to me unless I can type in Chinese characters. How long until UTF-8 support can be expected? Bookends 8 will support UTF-8. No release date yet, but it is approaching. P.S. Bookends 7 supports Chinese just fine if you set a Chinese font as a default font in Preferences. You...

Not sure how I missed that. Thanks a lot. Actually, though, it didn't work well for me, because I tend to put very lengthy notes in the notes and/or abstract fields. This meant that most of my references weren't imported at all. Hm, I haven't tried this in a while, but in my previous tests you coul...

rickl wrote:I seem to remember reading (or imagining?) that Bookends could export either whole files or individual records to the iPod. Is this possible?

Yes, it's easy. You'll find the step-by-step instructions here:

http://www.sonnysoftware.com/ipod.html


Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Marcus, I've seen this behavior occasionally myself -- pretty annoying. I have no idea what triggers it, but when it happens it seems to be field-specific. My best guess is that the OS becomes confused and thinks that the field's encoding is right-to-left, even though it is English (or Roman, at ...

I've been considering a switch to Bookends, however I have been unable to find out how the program handles journal abbreviations. Do these have to be entered manually or is there a way to store an abbreviation along with the full name of the journal? Thanks. Hi kitesci, That's what the Journal Glos...

Hi Matti, Try updating to Unstuffit 9 (www.allume.com) and download/unstuff again. We made a silent update a few days ago and used Stuffit 9 to make the archive -- I think it gives some folks with older versions of Unstuffit problems (very annoying!). If you still have problems with unstuffing after...

No, the feature set for Bookends 8 is set. Furthermore, throwing more source fields at it isn't an elegant way of solving the problem at all. It would require almost a complete redesign of the importer, and add quite a lot of complexity (one of the reasons people like Bookends over EndNote is becaus...

Hi Kristen, Three answers: 1. Good: To import the .fcgi file, drag and drop it on a reference window or the Hits window, then select PubMed from the popup menu when given the option. 2. Better: don't use a file at all. At the PubMed web site, output the tagged reference(s) to the screen, select All,...

Admittedly, this isn't really your problem, this is a @#$%ing stupid way to organize a database on their part. But if you can figure out a way around it I'll praise your name to the skies. And I'd deserve it! :-) No, you are right, there must be consistency in the text pattern. If a missing "field"...

Variations between output in a text file are a problem. One suggestion is to segregate the kinds of references you want to import by Type (books, articles, etc.). Then make a different filter for each Type. In the example you gave, I can see how you could parse it with a Source field. Alternatively,...

Hi Enkidu, You are doing everything correctly, almost. When you reach the punctuation, in the next entry you must *ignore* until the next thing you want to collect. In your example, collect to . into Title. Then Ignore until letter. Then collect until ; as date (or whatever you like). This adds a li...

You need to create an import filter that will parse the information provided by that source (if it's a library, it's likely to be in MARC format). You would then either save the data (as text) to a file, or better yet simply copy it from the browser (if that's the app you are using to access the sit...

how do you make an import filter for a library or database you're interested in? Is it difficult? Good questions that would be better in the Bookends forum, but... Making a filter is pretty easy (well, IMO). It's quite logical, and spelled out in detail in the User Guide. The thing that usually giv...

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