Sonny Software

About once a year I run into really irritating scan problems. Eventually, I have always found the problems. However, I wonder how others debug efficiently. Naturally, I tried chapter-by-chapter scanning. However, to my surprise toay, that worked even though scanning the whole did not. The error mess...

I am using Bookends with Mellel. The bibliography in Mellel is coming out fine. However, the citations appear in text are all coming out in a larger font size than intended (12 instead of 10). That is, they are not expressed in the style of the paragraph containing them (in which normal font is Book...

Is there a Bookends preference somewhere to place the bibliography at the end of the current section, rather than at the end of the document? REASON FOR QUESTION For book preparation it is common to have "front matter" in one file, and then a file for each chapter. The "front matter&q...

What could be easier? Thanks.

I keep documents in a DevonThink library, including downloaded attachments. It "should" be possible to have a Bookends 11 reference link to a document in that library, but it's not clear to me how to make that happen easily. DevonThink has a complex filing structure. In Finder, you see the...

Perhaps others have solved this problem trivially, but: Maintaining Bookends' consistency between two machines is tricky because one has to remember to make both the stuff in Applications Support and Preferences consistent. The typical problem with the former is having the same name for old and impr...

I'd recommend any server that you have access to at your institution or workplace. You can even sync to a db you keep on a thumb drive. Thats faster than exporting/importing references, and will sync deletions and groups as well (which exporting/importing won't). Jon Sonny Software I don't have an ...

Jon, thanks, I can try that. As for Sync, which seems from the manual to be attractive, what do you recommend for the cloud if not MobileMe?

It also seems that there are some issues using DropBox in a corporate environment. I was also dismayed in an experiment (create file at home, put in DropBox, access the file the next day in the offie) to find that when I accessed my data base in DropBox this morning that the file was text-only (appa...

Thanks Jon, I had actually looked in Preferences but didn't see "Added" (i.e., "date added," which is what I wanted) down at the bottom.

If I add references to Bookends at home and want to update the data base on my office computer, or vice versa, how best do I maintain consistency? One way, of course, would be to use Bookends in a "cloud" (as with a MobileMe account) or to use a USB stick to transfer. However, with big dat...

Just in case anyone else encounters this oddball problem. I updated to Bookends 10.5.4. I found that my database opened in list view and that I could not get to a reference view by double-clicking. I changed the default in preferences to be for reference view. I quit and reopened Bookends but no win...

Jon's advice to scan only at the end of a project with Pages, or on a COPY of the manuscript along the way, is sensible because it is the only way to assuredly avoid problems. After all, the document does not contain the markers that would allow for unscanning (or "rescanning" in the sense...

If I am writing in Pages, and along the way I change a Bookends bibliographic item (say to correct the year of publication), will that correction be made in the Pages document by scanning again? Since BE doesn't "unscan," I would think that the answer is no and that the correction could be...

Jon, I have not been able to consistently copy and paste from TextEdit. Right now, for example, I am looking at a TextEdit document with a single figure, copied from PowerPoint. If I use CMD-C, move over to a fresh Word document, and use CMD-V, nothing happens. Similarly, with CMD-X and CMD-V. Simil...