Ambigous Citation: Hard to decide if you don't see place

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:07 am

Everytime Bookends asks me "Which reference do you mean?" I kinda get annoyed. How should I know if Bookends does not show me the citation in its context, the place where I put it?

There's the option "Go to Ref" - what is way more needed is an option "Go to Citation" to look up which reference I meant.

Any others having the same problem? Workarounds?

.chriggi

Post by **Jon** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:40 am

I don't know why you should get annoyed -- in that dialog box Bookends shows you the citation in context (I believe it shows the preceding 180 or so characters, if I'm not mistaken). Are you not seeing that?

Jon
Sonny Software

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:02 am

Wow, quick response. Thanks a lot.

Jon wrote: in that dialog box Bookends shows you the citation in context (I believe it shows the preceding 180 or so characters, if I'm not mistaken). Are you not seeing that?

Actually - no i am not seeing that. Bookends opens a dialog box that shows a list of references that match my temp citation and a window with the first ref that is a match. But the citation in context i cannot see - cf the screenshot http://chriggi.de/temp/screen.tiff.

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Post by **Jon** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:10 am

Ah, are using Mellel by any chance? If so, that would explain it. Bookends should show you the citation in context for other scans (Word, NWE, RTF, text), but not Mellel. This is probably something we should implement...

(If you are using another word processor, please contact me directly and we'll see what the problem might be).

Jon
Sonny Software

chriggi · Post by **chriggi** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:18 am

Yes, Mellel.

Ohhh - what a pity. The integration seems so nice - but this is really important in long documents. Consider it a feature request

Thanx,
chriggi

Post by **Jon** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:30 am

I agree. It should be implemented.

Jon
Sonny Software