Course outline

[Mushussu]

I love BE and was wondering whether it can also help me to produce my course outlines more effeciently and accurately. For that purpose, the temporary citations would need to be replaced by the actual bibliographical data itself. Is that at all possibel? I would be grateful for any kind of advice.

[Jon]

Sure. Create a format that outputs a custom citation. That citation can have all the bibliographic data (just like a footnote) as well as anything else you like (e.g. notes, hypertext links (that is, the HTML for a hypertext link, how the application that handles the formatted document treats it is not up to Bookends), the full abstract, etc.).

Jon
Sonny Software

[Mushussu]

Great. Thanks.

[Jon]

Note that if you have pdfs on a server, you can even include hypertext links to them in the Bookends output. This is covered in the user guide toward the end, in the section Bookends Server. You don't need to actually use Bookends as the server software. But this section gives examples of a custom citation format that outputs HTML code that links to pdfs.

Jon
Sonny Software