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There is another function that I have been using for years now in BE, which also improves speed in another way. It allows for faster BibTex output because it deletes empty fields automatically from the BibTex file. If you use this example below for the field author {$author = {$a$},$¬^} you will ben...

The following factors might be useful as you consider the issue at hand: 1. About Style Format: I noticed that my references take a long time to output with the legacy default BibTex.fmt. But when I use my custom BiBTex.fmt the output is way faster. I don't know if this is a bug on the legacy format...

At a minimum, I would appreciate any efforts to help avoid that we need to go to outside tools (e.g. JabRef) to do additional checking on the integrity of a Bookends database (referencing the comment from @landol last year). To counter @Nhaps, as one who uses BibTeX, I am not immediately interested...

This has been discussed on the forum (several times, I think). It's not possible because, as you say, it's slow. Imagine Bookends formatted 1000 references as BibTeX every time you change a comma in a field. I'm guessing (really just a guess) that Mendeley keeps a BibTeX-formatted copy of each refe...

Bookends is a swiss knife that conforms to many text editors but does not fit nicely to the needs of LaTeX users. For that I'm using JabRef, which offers native bib sync right out of the box. Also, the creation and maintenance of reference fields is more flexible, in my view. I actually use both ref...

I use one library for everything so I don't face that problem. But if I were you I would distinguish articles with a "dash." For example Joe2000a is a book, and Joe2000-a is an article. The problem is that BE does not automatically add "dash" to your articles library.

Got it, thanks.

Excellent addition. Previewing PDF with spacebar could be a future bonus within the floating cite window.

Nice to know that you use BibLaTeX as well.Yes KM is the glue that binds LaTeX, Scrivener, and Sublime Text for me. KM also manages BE well, giving me the lists that you mentioned. I'm a lay person, no coding knowledge whatsoever, but was able to produce all the scripts in KM for repetitive tasks. K...

It's good to know that there is a universal way to automate workflow with any app. But I would like to mention an alternate way to suit your particular needs. My workflow is more restricted, but includes powerful scripts that can save a ton of time as well. The reason for the restriction is that I u...

Writing right now, thanks.

That's understandable. The question is whether it would be useful for users to add custom fields for replication. More particularly, the very field of Vol has been taken by the book title, so it follows that volume number has to be transferred somewhere that is preferably replicated as well.

When I replicate a book chapter, the book name is replicated correctly under the vol field, but the volume number is not. In my case I use field u4 for the volume number. Would it be possible to replicate the volume number as well? Thanks.

No problem. Thanks for considering adding more Types. I've lost quite a number of hours during these past years, because I have to use a single type for more than one kind of reference. When I change one field, other references get messed up. Thanks for looking into this.

Any format you create will inherit all the properties of the currently selected format. So you can modify the name at that time (e.g. My Format (England) and tweak the fields that need changing. As for more Types, I'd have to look into that. Easy to do, but I'd have to make sure it didn't break any...