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I have a batch of similar book references, all with data in the translator field, which, however, do not all output the translator field. For instance, in the output list below, the two before last do not present the translator field data whereas all the others do:

Homer. The Iliad. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1951.
———. The Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1998.
———. The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler. London and New York: Longmans Green and Co, 1900.
———. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagles. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1996.
———. The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus. New York: Signet Classic, 1999.
Homère. Iliade. Odyssée. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 115. Paris: Gallimard, 1965.
Homero. Odisseia. Translated by Frederico Lourenço. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2003.

The output style I'm using is:

a. t. u11. $Edited by $e. $Translated by $u3*. u15$ ed$. u13$ vols$. $Vol. $v. j. u2.$ Reprint,$ l: u, d. ($Electronic source. $z.)

Would anyone have a clue on what might be going on? Thanks.

Hm, strange. One thing that I would try is to use ~ instead of $ to bracket your plain text additions (and use the | sign to cut bindings with the surroundings).

I do not have Bookends at hand to provide more help – you could take a peek into the manual to learn more about the differences between ~ and $ (I almost completely phased out the use of $ in favor of ~ – I have less problems that way)

Thanks ozean. I have tried your suggestion and replaced all $ with ~. Unfortunately, it made no difference—the problem persists…

Too bad. In that case I think only a closer look into your database could help. Have you tried rebuilding it? If that does not help, you should probably contact Jon directly…

Hi, just a quick thought. Are all the references of the same Type? If not, you have to make sure all Types output the translator field.

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Jon,

Thanks for responding. Yes, they are all the same type. That's what makes it bizarre…

As it turns out, it was not a formatting issue. The two references that would not output the translator-field data turned out to be corrupted, for some reason. I know this because when I created replicas of those from scratch, the new references have output as expected.

Jon, note that in the past I had other problems involving the translator (u3) field. What happened was that in some references, data from the Notes field would output in the Translator field (which was empty). In these cases, too, I had to resort to creating new references from scratch and deleting the offending ones.

Are such occasional reference corruptions traceable back to the conversion of my database from Endnote, or have they arisen in Bookends? While I have no answer for this, I certainly would like to know the cause of these nagging quirks.

Hi,

It's impossible for me to say. If you see something like this, you can do a Verify on the database, and if a problem with any reference is found fix it (reindex, repair, rebuild, etc.).

Jon
Sonny Software