ambiguous citations

Reiner · Post by **Reiner** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:15 am

two remarks on this good feature:

- it seems to be that ambiguous citations which are used in Mellel's footnotes are always asked twice. (the citation is definitely used only once in the manuscript.)

- it would be great if the option "use always this one" would be serviced: I would like to select the correct citation only once and saved this decision within my original Mellel manuscript. Now I sadly have to make the same selection again and again each time I scan my document.

Post by **Jon** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:26 am

That's a function of the way the function works. If it's still ambiguous after the first pass, you queried again on the second pass. If this is so sad, why don't you just disambiguate the actual citation in Mellel? Add a unique word or the unique ID (#123432) to the citation.

Jon
Sonny Software

Reiner · Post by **Reiner** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:55 am

Jon wrote:That's a function of the way the function works. If it's still ambiguous after the first pass, you queried again on the second pass.

sorry but I don't understand what's your point here: There is no second pass. I make *one* scan of a Mellel document which contains *one* ambiguous citation within a footnote. bookends asks me twice which is the correct reference while it only asks once for citations in the main text. therefor I thought this maybe is a bug.

Jon wrote:If this is so sad, why don't you just disambiguate the actual citation in Mellel? Add a unique word or the unique ID (#123432) to the citation.

yes, of course. I did that meanwhile. But the point is: why should I do something manually, the software could do for me the first time the problem occurs? Please understand this as a feature request for further improvement of Bookends, which is already real great but far away from being perfect

Post by **Jon** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:59 am

Bookends does two passes through the document, not you. Each pass is independent of the other, so if the citation is still ambiguous after the first pass, you'll be queried again.

Jon
Sonny Software

Reiner · Post by **Reiner** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:43 am

Thanks, now I understand.

But how can it be that a citation is still ambiguous if I selected the correct citation before using the "this one"-button?

I just tried to reproduce the thing, but with a new document everything works as expected. If I delete the unique ID # again in the file the error occured, there it occurs again.

another little feature request: it would be fine if Bookends would allow the copying of the unique ID

Post by **Jon** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:50 am

It does. Preferences -> Scan & Bibliography -> Cite by -> Author, Date, Unique ID

Jon
Sonny Software

Reiner · Post by **Reiner** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:55 am

sorry, I meant the possibility to copy only the ID.