a few questions/issues on using BE

[K1]

1. Apologies if this is in the user guide somewhere, but how I would add a comment to a citation such as (Smith, p. 23, emphasis omitted). If you use "pp" I think it will work just to add it on, but if you have a single page, adding a comma will turn it to "pp" or you have to add the comment without using a comma.

2. Also, I didn't understand the section on "Ibid." in the user guide. Can you use it and have it refer to the reference in case it gets moved?

3. Finally, when I was scanning my document (using Word X), it was getting hung up indefinitely until I moved the mouse and then it finished scanning. Is this a known issue?

[Jon]

1. Apologies if this is in the user guide somewhere, but how I would add a comment to a citation such as (Smith, p. 23, emphasis omitted). If you use "pp" I think it will work just to add it on, but if you have a single page, adding a comma will turn it to "pp" or you have to add the comment without using a comma.

I'm not sure I understand. But you could have the above output like this:

{Smith, 2004\, p. 23, emphasis omitted\}

2. Also, I didn't understand the section on "Ibid." in the user guide. Can you use it and have it refer to the reference in case it gets moved?

If checked, Ibid. is inserted if two consecutive footnotes are to the same reference. If you move the citation and rescan, the Ibid would be replaced by the full footnote.

3. Finally, when I was scanning my document (using Word X), it was getting hung up indefinitely until I moved the mouse and then it finished scanning. Is this a known issue?

Someone told me that happened once, but it wasn't reproducible. I've never seen this behavior.

Jon
Sonny Software

[K1]

But you could have the above output like this:

{Smith, 2004\, p. 23, emphasis omitted\}

Thanks, I didn't know how to use the backslash yet. One more question: I'm trying to use "F.A." in a title so it doesn't get changed to "F.a." when the title is capitalized. I tried to add it to the Sentence & Title Case list, but it didn't work.

[Jon]

I'll have to look into it.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jon]

The . is causing the problem -- Bookends interprets this as the end of sentence (and hence end-of-word). I'll modify Bookends so that a period not followed by a space is not considered end-of-word, so entering "F.A." in the list of words to ignore should work. Try this in the next beta...

Jon
Sonny Software