Sonny Software

I have a question concerning the formats manager. I am trying to create my own bibliography format, but I find the system to do so very unpractical.
What I can't figure out is how to prevent certain words from appearing if the field is left blank in your book description

For example, if I create a code such as:
a. t. (transl. by...) etc

the "(transl. by)" also appears in my bibliography when there is no translator. Same goes for editors. How can I prevent this?

Also, is it possible to make a difference between the indication 'pp.' when I am referring to several pages in a book and 'p.' when I refer to a one-page article?

Something different: Bookends constantly crashes or gives me error notices when I am doing nothing wrong. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I have to work with this database system daily, so its proper funtioning is very important to me. I've been using Bookends for one month now and I really get the impression that it is not very reliable. Does anyone have any experience with Endnote? Does this program work better?

Thank you

#1. There is a section in the User Guide on how Bookends deals with empty fields. In simple cases, just placing spaces judiciously deals with it (for example, $translated by $e, with the trailing space in the "quote marks". In more complicated cases the ~ symbol is used to "bind" text to preceding fields. Take a look.

#2. For p. vs. pp., you'd enter something like this: $p. ^pp. $. Again, this is in the User Guide.

#3. Rebuild your database and see if that fixes it.

Jon
Sonny Software

I'll have a look

Thank you!