b) Is there some way to get the cloud to recognize combination terms? For instance, if I have the term "New York", I don't want to see "new" and "york" separately in the cloud. I tried putting curly brackets around terms like that, but it didn't affect it. Is there some other method? If not, could there please be?
On reflection, I think you can do this by putting a non-breaking space (hard space) between the words you want "connected". That would be Option-Space. I tried this and it worked for me. This may have some side effects (such as how the words are indexed by Bookends), but I suspect it would be transparent in most cases.
Indi wrote:
In the prefs tab, I see the list of tags that are ignored, and I see a place to select color and font size. But there is nothing that says "add", or has +/- symbols, or that is a field to type in. What am I missing? Here's a picture of what I see in prefs:
It's a textbox that you can type in. Enter your word(s), one per line, and Bookends will exclude them when it makes a tag cloud from the Title, Notes, and/or Abstract fields.
Jon
Sonny Software
Please see the image I sent in the message above--there is no text box. There is that one white rectangle, but it appears to be the color selector. What am I missing? thanks!
Indi wrote:Yes--I meant on the left, where groups are. I imagined that one could toggle an arrow (for instance) by the word "groups" and choose to display term lists instead.
There is a downside to that. One of the nice features of the Term Lists is that you can easily insert terms into a reference by clicking a button or drag and drop. That would not be possible if the Term Lists were integrated into the List View window.
Jon
Sonny Software
I see your point. I'll try playing with that as a feature.
The long list of words is in a textbox, edit field, whatever. Just like the field I'm typing in now to enter this message. Click in it and type. Maybe it's too simple...
Jon wrote:The long list of words is in a textbox, edit field, whatever. Just like the field I'm typing in now to enter this message. Click in it and type. Maybe it's too simple...
Jon
Sonny Software
Here--I'll send the image again:
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You're saying there is a text box here somewhere that I am missing? Starting to feel a bit silly if so...
Update: You mean edit the list itself directly!! Sorry, I get it now. But every time I tried that before, entire words would highlight and I couldn't get an insertion point. I finally managed. For some reason it's taking several clicks to get a blinking cursor instead of a word highlight.
There is a field with a scrollbar (right below the words "Exclude from Title, Abstract, & Notes tags:). There are words listed there (aber, about, above, etc.). You can add your own words, delete words, etc. just as you would from any text area (e.g. a text processor document, a web page text area, etc.). This is the same way we list words to be excluded from capitalization rules in titles and other such lists.
Just type away.
Let's take this off forum if it still isn't clear and I'll send you screen snaps that guide you through it.
b) Is there some way to get the cloud to recognize combination terms? For instance, if I have the term "New York", I don't want to see "new" and "york" separately in the cloud. I tried putting curly brackets around terms like that, but it didn't affect it. Is there some other method? If not, could there please be?
On reflection, I think you can do this by putting a non-breaking space (hard space) between the words you want "connected". That would be Option-Space. I tried this and it worked for me. This may have some side effects (such as how the words are indexed by Bookends), but I suspect it would be transparent in most cases.
Jon
Sonny Software
Oh, excellent. That will satisfy the control freak side of my personality. And if it affects indexing, so much the better, at least for the kind of terms I have in mind.
Indi wrote:After I wrote the first post, I found the shift-option feature. I'm used to that happening in BibDesk automatically, without having to do a key combination. Very useful visually.
To show it all the time or on demand is a design decision. I for one don't need to know to which groups a reference belongs all the time, and would find it distracting to have group highlighting change every time I selected a reference or did a search. When I do want to know, pressing Shift-Option shows me. In the end, both do the same job.
Indi's suggestion had never crossed my mind but it seems very attractive to me. Jon has a point also, so do we have a strong candidate for a new preference setting here?