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Hi Danny, I'll go over these suggestions later. One quick point -- the * means treat the field like a name. Whether that name is treated like and author or an editor can be set in the format itself (first tab: under Names, "Others like: authors/editors"). That means, output names in user-d...

Not I. If I option-drag or Copy Formatted, italics are pasted into Mellel just fine. Are your sure the font you are using has an italic face? This is a tech support issue in any event, so please contact us directly if you have problems with italic fonts and Mellel.

Jon
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Hi, Thanks. Hm, it does stop on Month/Day for me. But the tab order may not be exactly what you expect. It was set when Bookends 7 was released, and the original order has been mainted ever since for reasons dealing with backwards compatibility. If you get to Notes, the next tab takes you to Month/D...

Hm, I don't think there will be a problem, at least not at this time. But the build-in importer is more powerful, gives you a Copy To button, lets you remove items with the Delete key, saves searches, does automated PubMed searches, and maybe something else that escapes me. Also, I work on and debug...

Not at the present, although it's something I'd like to add.

BTW, don't use Reference Miner with Bookends 8 or 9 -- use the built-in Internet Search (Utilities menu).

Jon
Sonny Software

For the paste to work, the linked application must understand the AppleEvent that Bookends sends it. My guess is that TexShop either doesn't handle AppleEvents (at least the paste AE) or that it uses a nonstandard AE for this. The solution, as you found, is to press the Command-V yourself. Jon Sonny...

I don't see this -- only the surname is used here. If you have a small example db (one reference would be good), zip and send it to me...

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi, How is the name entered in the database? Bookends expects surname, first name. If it's not, the Bookends should output the entire name as you entered it. Perhaps you have a name entered as surname last? I'd have to have an example to see why two spaces, but don't worry about it -- Bookends will ...

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A few people have reported this, but I can never reproduce it. It may be some odd permissions issue, but it's hard to say. The solution that seems to work is to remove Bookends Preferences and reinstall Bookends from scratch.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Michael,

I used to be a lowly clinician myself . I'll give it some more thought. If you want to continue this discussion at a future time, please contact me directly (support@sonnysoftware.com) and we'll talk about it.

Jon
Sonny Software

Bookends 9.0.1 will be able to ignore the first word of a title if it ends in a hyphen. So you can ignore Al- and al- and the rest.

Bookends can't ignore words in the Authors field. I haven't forgotten the request, but this is more difficult to implement.

Jon
Sonny Software

If you have a feature request, send it to support@sonnysoftware.com, not this forum.

Jon
Sonny Software

Isn't that GUI scripting?

Jon
Sonny Software

This is do-able. But it seems best to do this on a case-by-case basis. Are there any other punctuation marks (other than the hyphen) that might designate the end of a prefix?

Jon
Sonny Software

There is no way to do this for authors. It works for titles, but as you say it must be a word. I'll think about ways it might be possible to do this with words that don't end with a space.

Jon
Sonny Software