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by Philologist
Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:28 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Beginner's question: where do I keep my quotes?
Replies: 9
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Re: Beginner's question: where do I keep my quotes?

David, It's not a bad idea to keep your quotations in a Nisus file , especially because of the extremely powerful Nisus search engine. You can find many quotations in a Nisus file at the same time just with one search (non-contiguous selection). You can't do that in Bookends, as far as I know. The b...
by Philologist
Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:48 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Please give us an anniversary feature
Replies: 3
Views: 4704

Re: Please give us an anniversary feature

On Apr 27, 2015 1:39 pm Jon wrote:
Redefine a few of the user-defined fields that you're not using now to hold birth and death years
All but one of my user-defined fields for books seems to be already taken.

I could use u15 for BOTH birth and death years. Would that be an option?
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by Philologist
Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:37 am
Forum: Bookends
Topic: Please give us an anniversary feature
Replies: 3
Views: 4704

Please give us an anniversary feature

I often have to write anniversary articles for journals and newspapers about people and famous books in the Humanities. A typical assignment could be an article about Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry", which first appeared 250 years ago. This task involves re-reading the ...