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You can quickly (and temporarily) unlink/link Bookends to Mellel with the Link popup menu in the reference window. When temporarily unlinked, Copy Citation/Format will put the information in the clipboard without switching. You could also temporarily link to DR and then back to Mellel if you wanted....

Bookends assumes that since you already have the pdf it is named as you like. If it renames it automatically, you'll have two copies of the pdf (the original and the moved copy) with different names. I'm not sure that's a great idea.

Jon
Sonny Software

If you contacted Microsoft support, what did they say was wrong? The text is in a Word "field", but it's just text. There is nothing unusual about it, as far as I can tell.

Jon
Sonny Software

The generic PubMed search is free text already. And in the Bookends advanced PubMed search, the default is for "any field" (i.e. full text). Why can't you connect to EBSCO via Bookends? If they have a z39.50 server, you should be able to. Ask your library for connection details, and create...

Bookends will offer to rename a pdf when attaching/copying it. But that's not what you are doing -- find and attach local pdf leave the file name alone.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi, The first issue is due to your settings in the style sheets. Bookends will cause Word to use the font set in the style sheet for the paragraph it is in. So set the font to whatever you want to use (rather than overriding the style sheet with an ad hoc font change) and it will not change after a ...

Yes. You can't scan a Mellel files. Instead, you open the file in Mellel and use the Bibliography Palette to tell Bookends to scan it. Mellel and Bookends will communicate with each other, and the result will be a scanned document in a new window. Please refer to the User Guide for more information ...

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Please zip your database, the modified format, and the document and send them to me, and I'll take a look.

Jon
Sonny Software

2. Bookends let's you enter "quoted text" in a citation like this: {for revew see \Smith, 2006, whatever\, which summarizes the topic well} This didn't work for me, though maybe phpBB ate some of your backslashes. It worked when I put a backslash after the opening { and for good measure b...

Hi, You've listed a lot of things. I'll make a few comments and then perhaps we can narrow things down. 1. You can cite just by date by preceding the citation with a %: {%Smith, 2006, whevever; %Jones, 2001, more whatever} It's up to you to manage the authors in the text, in that case, of course. 2....

Keywords would work in this case if that's all you used them for (primary, secondary, etc.). But if you use them for other things as well they wouldn't do. Defining another field for this purpose would work. But so would defining color labels. I don't see them as mutually exclusive, BTW. You could u...

There are 10 color labels, so up to 10 different subject types could be defined this way.

Jon
Sonny Software

What you're asking for sounds like something pretty basic, so maybe I don't understand. You should be using a custom citation format to handle citations. Create an encyclopedia Type and have it output whatever you want. The "master" format (which creates the bibliography) should be configu...

I think it would be difficult to do based on groups, for several reasons (for one thing, a reference can belong to more than one group). It makes the most sense to do it based on fields, or perhaps on color label (which is kind of like static groups).

Jon
Sonny Software

How would that work? It seems to me you'd have to either create a new Primary and Secondary Type, or use some identifier in a user-defined field that would let Bookends distinguish between them.

Jon
Sonny Software