Sonny Software

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...

Hi Ekius, This is from the phpBB user guide (not terribly grammatical, but...): "Polls are a special type of that allow community members to vote on an idea or issue.  Polls can only be made from the top post in a topic." Full info about the software used for this forum is here: http://ww...

Hi guys, I work on both a laptop and a desktop computer. I'm just wondering whether my licence for Bookends is per-user or per-machine: can I install it legitimately on both without buying a new licence? Hi Staph, It's per user. If you are the only user, you can legitimately use it on a laptop and ...

Yes. Here are the instructions (from our web site, and in an appendix in the User Guide as well). Do this with 50 references exported from EndNote 4 to make sure it works for you (the name of the style in EndNote 4 may or may not be the same as EndNote 6/7, but it should be close -- if you can't fig...

Hi Davide,

That means you are using the original release of Word X. It didn't allow developers to place their own icons in toolbars.

A subsequent patch to Word fixed this (I think there were two patches in all). You can download that latest from the

www.mactopia.com

web site.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon: you are right. I am using Devon Word Service and CocoaSpell with OX 10.35. Obviously there is a problem here as I cannot make Bookends to access the speller via Services, Any help? You have to uninstall Devon Word Services -- it's either a bug in their software or in OS X, but whichever, Word ...

Bookends supports Services in OS 10.2 or later, so it should support spelling via CocoaASpell (there can be a problem with DevonThink Word Services preventing Bookends from accessing Services in OS 10.2 -- not sure about 10.3). As for supporting spelling via Mellel -- that would require that they pr...

I'm not sure what you mean. Mellel doesn't offer a spelling Service. There is free one, though, that you can install: CocoaAspell It can be found at http://www.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/home.html I haven't used it, but it looks like it would fit the bill (and it has dictionaries for many langua...

Hi Wilder,

Spell checking is something we are going to look into after Bookends 8 is out. Although if we implement it, it will be via OS X, and I'm not sure they allow multiple languages at once...

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Jeff,

Yes, Bookends 7.7.5 is compatible with Word 2004 (that tidbit is near the top of our home pages where we list features added in 7.7.5).

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi remold,

I'll have to look into this. I'm not sure that that information is available via the Amazon web services interface. If it is, though, it should be possible to import it..

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi, um, stripedskunk.

If you want Roman accented characters, you just type them the way you would in any Mac application. For example, to type é you would enter

Option-e
e

(two keystrokes)

For an umlauted u (ü), it would be

Option-u
u

Or am I missing something?

Jon
Sonny Software

The field labels don't change as a function of Type -- they are constant. What does change is the way the fields are handled when creating a bibliography. For example, the Volume field holds the volume number of a Journal Article, but holds the title of the book when a Book Chapter is cited. If a fi...

In the Mellel forum however, the method you suggest was used, but this apparently also generated duplicates in the bibliography. I didn't try it out yet, will do so today. It didn't generate duplicates in the bibliography, it generated "duplicates" in the citation list that Mellel keeps i...

Hi Adelheid, If you use custom citation formats and "Ibid.", Bookends will create a new citation every time. But we made a change in 7.7.5 that (I think) changed the behavior with regard to making duplicates in bibliographies. But the problem here isn't anything to do with Bookends' logic....