Mellel Bibliography Scan - Bug?

[Taman]

I have a reference entered as follows in Mellel:

%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18 \, emphasis added\

When the bibliography gets scanned, it changes the reference to:

%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18 \, emphasis added\\, emphasis added\

Then doesn't format it. Seems that each time I run the scan it adds the '\, emphasis added\' again.

Have tried testing a couple of scenarios with my problem. I've entered 6 versions of the reference to test:

1. {%Nonaka, 1994, #265}
2. {%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18}
3. {%Nonaka, 1994, #265\, emphasis added\}
4. {%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18 \, emphasis added\}
5. {%Nonaka, 1994, #265\, emphasis added\ @18}
6. {\emphasis added, \Nonaka, 1994, #265@18}

The resulting formatted references are:

1. (1994)
2. (Ibid., p. 18)
3. (Ibid., emphasis added)
4. ???
5. ???
6. (emphasis added, Ibid., p. 18)

Would this imply that there is a bug with using the @page symbol with comments following it? Or am I doing something wrong?

Best, Taman

BTW, the code for #4 gets changed to "%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18\, emphasis added\\, emphasis added\" and the code for #5 gets changed to "%Nonaka, 1994, #265@18\, emphasis added\"

[Jon]

Hi,

You can't combine "cited pages" and "quoted text" in a citation. In your more complex cases, I'd use just quoted text, e.g. for #4:

{%Nonaka, 1994, #265\ p. 18, emphasis added\}

(or something similar).

Jon
Sonny Software

[nicka]

You can't combine "cited pages" and "quoted text" in a citation.

That's a shame. Any plans to add this? Or to give an error report on scan? I have run into this problem too, with the quoted text and slash duplicating itself, but hadn't worked out under what circumstances it happened.

In the meantime, it might be worth saying something about this in the manual (on pp. 101-2, I suppose).

[Jon]

Since you can still easily get the output you want with quoted text, there isn't much of a limitation. I'll add this to the guide.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Taman]

Thanks for respose. Bit of a shame, but at least I know why now!

Best, Taman