Learning (a little) from the competition

[thecritic]

Unless the formatting has significantly increased in 5, I'll stick to what I said about formatting. I do SBL formatting which is disgustingly complicated. BE handles it, Sente 4 couldn't even come close unfortunately. But, it may have improved to the point that it can.

I'm aware that this is off-topic, but I wanted to clear up some of Danzac's misconceptions, and I am unable to communicate with him by other means because private messaging is disabled.

Formatting has significantly improved in Sente 5. As of Sente 5.0.22, you can copy text from pdfs (BTW, there are updates to Sente almost daily). I checked the Sente manual, and I believe that it supports styled text in citations.

[danzac]

Unless the formatting has significantly increased in 5, I'll stick to what I said about formatting. I do SBL formatting which is disgustingly complicated. BE handles it, Sente 4 couldn't even come close unfortunately. But, it may have improved to the point that it can.

I'm aware that this is off-topic, but I wanted to clear up some of Danzac's misconceptions, and I am unable to communicate with him by other means because private messaging is disabled.

Formatting has significantly improved in Sente 5. As of Sente 5.0.22, you can copy text from pdfs (BTW, there are updates to Sente almost daily). I checked the Sente manual, and I believe that it supports styled text in citations.

Critic, thanks for clearing up things - as I said any ignorance is my fault. I hesitate to talk more about this as Jon asked us to steer back on course. Just a small note to clarify a bit. My BE format handling "Books" is actually handling a number of different types of books that often have very complicated formatting according to SBL. It is handling regular books, authored books with editors, multivolume books with editors, multivolume edited books in an edited series, books previously under different titles and publishers, commentaries, fetschrifts, etc. As I said, SBL is pretty bloated for its formatting, but it is the world I live in. I couldn't come close to formatting all of these with a single reference type with Sente 4. In fact, I couldn't do it with BE until well into v.9. So I would have to test the new version of Sente to see if it could handle it. You may be correct that it can now.

EDIT: I'll correct myself now I see the journal glossary in Sente. It may have been there in v.4 and I somehow missed it, not sure.