BE/Mellel: "Generate Bibliography" greyed out

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:40 pm

After upgrading to BE 9 (I think) the "generate bibliography after scan" option is greyed out when hitting "scan document" in Mellel. In effect, BE (or Mellel?) does the same whether I check "Proofreading scan" or not: It only checks the citations, puts the references found in the hit list and switches back to Mellel.

What it does not do, and what I want it to do: Transform Mellel's temporary citation delimiters into in-text-citation according to my format in BE, generate a Bibliography (and a new Mellel document with all that).

Any ideas what could be wrong?

It's BE 9.0.3 (purchased BE 8 in Nov 2005 so shouldn't be a license issues) and Mellel 2.0 (bulit 15) on Mac OS 10.3.9

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:03 pm

Now that I've upgraded to Mellel 2.0.6 things are different - but still not working (maybe the difference is accidentially, though).

I can check "generate bibliography" now, it is no longer greyed out. But: "Send bibliography to Mellel" and "generate bib as.." are still greyed out. And BE doesn't produce anything, it only checks citations against its references.

Post by **Jon** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:58 am

Hi,

Those options are grayed out because they are set for you -- you can't change them if you scan from Mellel.

As for not creating a new doc, I can't say. Does rebuilding help? If not, please send me your database (zipped) and a small example Mellel file.

Jon
Sonny Software

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:02 am

OK, thanks.

I can't check if re-building helps for some days now. Thanks for the hint and I'll mail you if I need more help.