Sonny Software

I have a couple of references with a pipe sign in the title, like this:

Perlman, G., & Horan, F. L. (1986). Report on UNIX|STAT release 5.1: Data analysis programs for UNIX and MSDOS. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 18(2), 168-176. doi:10.3758/BF03201019

I think the pipe sign is interpreted as a subscript, which is how it is displayed.

Is there some easy way to escape the special meaning?

No, but in preferences you can either assign a different character for subscript of turn it off completely.

Jon
Sonny Software

OK. First I tried changing the subscript character to _ but I had any number of _ in URLs, etc., so I changed it to \ (the sole remaining option), and BookEnds beachballed. After several minutes, I force quit. When I reopened it and tried opening the library again, beachball again: force quit. Then I reopened it but didn't open the library until after I'd set subscripts to None; that worked, but of course I now have no subscript capability.

I recognize that perhaps two-character escape/control sequences aren't desirable in entries, but have you considered allowing special characters that are outside of the conventional text/punctuation space? For example, H↓2↓0 or πr⇡2⇡? That would make it less likely to collide with characters used in computer science or other technical references.

No one has ever asked for it before. I'll add it to the request list.

Jon
Sonny Software