Possible explanation for EndNote XML import glitch?

[tharpold]

Hi Jon,

I'm posting this to the forum to see if it rings a bell for other Bookends users.

I noted in my first post to the forum over the weekend that I had run into two problems in migrating my EndNote 8 database to Bookends: 1) the "Editor" field for edited books was imported into Bookends's "Author" field, requiring me to manually switch this info for several hundred edited books; 2) some reference titles (book titles, journal article titles, chapter titles) were copied to Bookends in Arial, usually in Arial 11, whereas my default font for Bookends is Optima 12. This second problem appeared inconsistent; I couldn't then discern a common link between the misformatted entries.

I think I may have found that link: every misformatted title I've had to reset includes a style change applied to text within the title, usually to signal an embedded book title. For example, this journal article:

Hyman, Lawrence W. “The Reader’s Attitude in <i>Paradise Regained<i>.â€

[Jon]

Conceivably this could be the cause of the Arial/Optima problem. As for the other, it is probably that EN outputs the editor as the "primary author" for an edited book, and Bookends puts that in the authors field. A simple global move after import will take care of that.

Jon
Sonny Software