problem with %-citations

[Reiner]

I have a strange behaviour of Bookends citations which begin with % to suppress the authors name.

My custom citation format is: "a u11/d" where u11 stands for the original publication date. Everything is working correctly e. g. I have (Kant 1784/1999, S. 20). But when I begin the citation with % the Bookends-Mellel-combination produces (1999, S. 20) instead of (1784/1999, S. 20) what should be there.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

(Of course I could change the citations manually within Mellel, but while there are lots of citations and while a rescan will remove the manual changes again, I would not see this as reasonable solution.)

[Jon]

Hi Reiner, I'll have to take a look at this.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jon]

The % symbol doesn't suppress the author's name. It means "date-only" (which means the date field, only). Actually, I'm seeing that the "S20" is being left out in this case, too, which I'll look into. But as for %, it won't give you what you want (everything but the author).

To suppress the author, use

{-temp citation info}

Jon
Sonny Software

[Reiner]

Hi Jon,

thanks for your answer. But I have a few more questions.

1. Sorry, but I don't understand

{-temp citation info}

. Could eventually explain it? Thanks.

2. That the page-numbers are printed if I begin a citation with % is very logical imho. Because I wouldn't add page numbers first manually and then exclude it again by adding a %. Or what kind of error in reasoning do I make here?

3. Wouldn't it be better to define % as supressing the author/editor which would lead to the same result if you use default citations but would enable more flexibility in use with costum citation formats? Or maybe an additional special character for suppressing the author could find its way to Bookends?

thank you very much and best regards, reiner

[Jon]

% is for date-only. There's nothing logical about it or not -- that's what the feature does.

Use the minus sign to suppress the author, as in the example I gave you:

{- temp citation info}

will output everything but the author.

Please see the User Guide for these and other formatting features.

Jon
Sonny Software