Bookends and Windows

[Guest]

Hi, I am really interested in purchasing Bookends to replace Endnote on my iBook, however I still need to fall back to the uni's Windows XP/Office/Endnote systems at times - can anyone tell me how Bookends on the Mac works with Windows (if it does - I hope so because I really want out of Endnote!). Thanks in advance.

[Jon]

Sorry, Bookends is Mac OS X-only.

Jon
Sonny Software

[paul]

Like others posting on the BookEnds forum, I'm a long-time EndNote user (since it was beta!) looking for something better.

However, there is one thing holding me back from buying a 10-user license. Is there a way to share libraries and documents with Windows users? A cross-platform solution would make this a killer-app (and Endnote-killer).

Thanks,

Paul

[Jon]

Hi,

You can exchange references with EN users on either platform by export/import. This can be via the EndNote (Refer) format (export from Bookends) and the EndNote Import option. Use the reverse to go from EN to Bookends.

Bookends also exports and imports EN 7 XML, and imports EN 8/9 XML.

Jon
Sonny Software

[paul]

Hi Jon,

That sounds good. One more question: if I have a MS Word document with Bookends inserted citations, for example {Smith and Jones, 1972, #29688} can an EndNote user with the imported library format the original document?

Thanks,

Paul

[Jon]

No. That's because EN record numbers (preceded by the #) are sequential, and Bookends unique ids (the corresponding variable) are psuedo-random. Without going into the argument about which is better (the Bookends way is much better), it does preclude what you suggest. You can do the reverse, though -- Bookends can format a paper with EN citations as long as the Bookends reference's unique id corresponds to the EN record number (which it will if you import the XML output from EN).

Jon
Sonny Software