I've just noticed a really bizarre problem in the volume field. I am trying to input
20 (2)
into this field, but Bookends doesn't seem to like it. This is, of course, a fairly standard entry.
What happens is that as I'm typing, the program moves the text around. I type "20 ", and then as soon as I put in the first bracket, the cursor jumps back to the beginning, and replaces my open bracket with a close bracket. Then there are a couple more weird manouvers, and I end up with the following:
2) 20)
However just now, when I cut and pasted from Bookends into this message, it reorganized the characters into the right order - but it's still messed up in the program itself. And when I try to change it manually, the cursor changes to a small "superscript"-style one.
I haven't tried making a citation in a text editor yet, which I guess is the next step. Very strange... The weird thing is, I have similar entries in another bibliography and haven't had any problems with that.
Any ideas as to what's going on here?
Marcus
Volume Field Trouble
Hi Marcus,
I've seen this behavior occasionally myself -- pretty annoying. I have no idea what triggers it, but when it happens it seems to be field-specific. My best guess is that the OS becomes confused and thinks that the field's encoding is right-to-left, even though it is English (or Roman, at least).
The solution is simply to rebuild the database (Database Maintenance -> Rebuild (Keep User Data)). That will take care of it.
Jon
Sonny Software
I've seen this behavior occasionally myself -- pretty annoying. I have no idea what triggers it, but when it happens it seems to be field-specific. My best guess is that the OS becomes confused and thinks that the field's encoding is right-to-left, even though it is English (or Roman, at least).
The solution is simply to rebuild the database (Database Maintenance -> Rebuild (Keep User Data)). That will take care of it.
Jon
Sonny Software