I have a batch of similar book references, all with data in the translator field, which, however, do not all output the translator field. For instance, in the output list below, the two before last do not present the translator field data whereas all the others do:
Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951.
———. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1998.
———. The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler. London and New York: Longmans Green and Co, 1900.
———. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1996.
———. The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus. New York: Signet Classic, 1999.
Homère. Iliade. Odyssée. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 115. Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
Homero. Odisseia. Translated by Frederico Lourenço. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2003.
The output style I'm using is:
a. t. u11. $Edited by $e. $Translated by $u3*. u15$ ed$. u13$ vols$. $Vol. $v. j. u2.$ Reprint,$ l: u, d. ($Electronic source. $z.)
Would anyone have a clue on what might be going on? Thanks.
Output quirks
Hm, strange. One thing that I would try is to use ~ instead of $ to bracket your plain text additions (and use the | sign to cut bindings with the surroundings).
I do not have Bookends at hand to provide more help – you could take a peek into the manual to learn more about the differences between ~ and $ (I almost completely phased out the use of $ in favor of ~ – I have less problems that way)
I do not have Bookends at hand to provide more help – you could take a peek into the manual to learn more about the differences between ~ and $ (I almost completely phased out the use of $ in favor of ~ – I have less problems that way)
As it turns out, it was not a formatting issue. The two references that would not output the translator-field data turned out to be corrupted, for some reason. I know this because when I created replicas of those from scratch, the new references have output as expected.
Jon, note that in the past I had other problems involving the translator (u3) field. What happened was that in some references, data from the Notes field would output in the Translator field (which was empty). In these cases, too, I had to resort to creating new references from scratch and deleting the offending ones.
Are such occasional reference corruptions traceable back to the conversion of my database from Endnote, or have they arisen in Bookends? While I have no answer for this, I certainly would like to know the cause of these nagging quirks.
Jon, note that in the past I had other problems involving the translator (u3) field. What happened was that in some references, data from the Notes field would output in the Translator field (which was empty). In these cases, too, I had to resort to creating new references from scratch and deleting the offending ones.
Are such occasional reference corruptions traceable back to the conversion of my database from Endnote, or have they arisen in Bookends? While I have no answer for this, I certainly would like to know the cause of these nagging quirks.