Request: Scrivener integration

[AsafKeller]

Scrivener stores each project as a package, including a collection of RTF files. If Bookends could access these files, and format them collectively, creating in the process an RTF containing the reference list, that would be very nice. It would allow us to use Scrivener for an entire project, including the formatting which is now done in another word processor. The ability to indicate which RTFs in Scrivener's package are to be formatted would be a nice addition. As would the ability to unformat Scrivener's citations ala Bookend's integration with Mellel.

[Jon]

Hi,

Bookends can scan rtfd files now. But only one rtf document per package is allowed. The ability to unscan requires a word processor (in this case Scrivener, which is not a word processor) to allow and recognize hidden fields. Scrivener doesn't do this, and Literature and Latte would have to implement this to allow it to work.

Jon
Sonny Software

[AsafKeller]

Bookends can scan rtfd files now. But only one rtf document per package is allowed.

Would you consider enabling scanning multiple files? That would be useful not only for Scrivener users. I seem to remember that EndNote used to have that feature.

[Jon]

I don't recall EN doing that, rather it would scan a Word Master Document (which could contain multiple files). It would be very difficult to have Bookends scan any random collection of files (which is what the various rtf files in the package would appear to Bookends -- which one first, for example?). In any case, this would require a lot of work, and more overhead in the scanning interface, for rather little benefit.

Jon
Sonny Software