Sonny Software

That sounds good. Thanks for looking into this.

W.

It's done, and will be available in the next update (it may or may not be delayed for Mellel, because that requires work by both us and RedleX).

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks a ton for your work on this Jon. I am new to using Bookends with Mellel and came across this very problem. I was excited when I went to the forum to see that a solution was on its way. I hope the new update comes out soon. Regardless, I have been very impressed with the product and will not hesitate to recommend it.

Norm

Hi. I've discussed this with RedleX and they're planning on supporting this feature. I can't say exactly when the update will be available, but historically we issue them ~every 4-6 weeks.

Jon
Sonny Software

Just in time for me to submit my thesis! Thanks for the quick and helpful response.

Best,
Will

This is very interesting and useful, thanks for implementing it. I occasionally run into this problem. How will this work for those (Mellel expats...) working on Scrivener or other programs?

It should work with RTF files from any source. I've already implemented it for Word/RTF, NWP, and Pages. Mellel is taking longer because part of the wiring has to be implemented by RedleX, and of course they weren't anticipating it (I just sprung it on them, and they were gracious enough to move it into their schedule).

Jon
Sonny Software

Sorry to dig up this post, but I had a question related to the square brackets.

Is there any way to have a citation that uses square brackets (via the "[" function) but that also removes the author name (via the "-" function)?

If you mean you want to use the [ metacharacter and - together, then no, you can't do that. Only one metacharacter per temp citation.

Jon
Sonny Software

Blast. I figured it was something like that.

Any chance of developing a single metacharacter that will do both

No, sorry, that wouldn't make sense. Allowing more than one metacharacter would be a more robust solution, but would be a lot of work to implement, and could cause a lot of problems because many combinations just wouldn't make sense (e.g. omit author name + move author name in front of the citation).

Jon
Sonny Software

No problem. Just thought I'd ask.