Omit Author/Date only with BE 12/Mellel 3.2/BibTex Key

[cboulanger]

Hello,

I am trying to have Mellel/Bookends format a citation like so: "Miller (2009) says..." instead of "Miller (Miller 2009) says ...". I have BibTeX citation delimiters enabled, so the tempory citation within the brackets is "Miller2009". I have tried both "%Miller2009" and "-Miller2009", but none of these work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Christian

[Jon]

I don'' believe those modifiers work with BibTeX scans (I'm out of town and can't check right now). I should update the documentation.

Jon
Sonny Softwaer

[cboulanger]

I see. Too bad. That would be a good feature to have in the future.

I'll try to construct a regular expression to search/replace this pattern automatically then.

[cboulanger]

Unfortunately, that doesn't work because the Mellel Find/Replace Feature does not treat References as normal text. That's unfortunate, because it will result in a lot of ugly citations ("Miller (Miller, 2009) says..."). It would be great if "Omit Author/Date only" could be implemented for BibTex citation key mode, too.

Thanks.

[Jon]

Unless your Mellel document has complex formatting, you can export as RTF, search/replace in Word (or Text Edit, or NWP, or whatever you have), and then import RTF back to Mellel.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jon]

BTW, I'm out of town so don't do this now, but by the end of the week contact tech support directly. A Bookends BibTeX scan (using \cite{} as the in-text citation delimiter) can only be done on text files. You say you'rs using Mellel, so I don't understand. I'm not actually sure what you are doing. Again, let's move this off the forum, this is a particular case and it should be handled directly.

Jon
Sonny Software