question marks

danzac · Post by **danzac** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:33 pm

Can I suggest that Bookends in the final clean up for formatting replace ?. with ?

Would this cause any problems for anyone?

The reason is some titles end in a question mark, so the question mark goes into the title field. But in my format, the title field is followed by a period. This then outputs ?. at the end of my titles in my bibs.

Thanks, Danny

Post by **Jon** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:41 pm

Hm, Bookends should already take care of this. And it does so in the various SBL formats that I have. What is the order field of the format you using?

Jon
Sonny Software

danzac · Post by **danzac** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:13 pm

Jon, here is my format

a.| t. ~Vol. ~u16|~ of ~u15$.$ u13~ vols.~| f v~.~`.`| ~Edited by ~e. ~Translated by ~u3*.| x~ ed.~| l: u, d. |~ Repr., ~g.|Â¬

Here is what is being output:
Sizer, Stephen. Christian Zionism: Roap-Map to Armageddon?. Downers Grove: IVP, 2006.

So Bookends is taking care of the period after the title, but I suspect it is not removing the period that is in the force quotes after volume. The forced period is there to show up after a full title if there is no volume number, so it can't be removed.

Hope this helps.

Post by **Jon** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:21 pm

That's right. I think post-processing ?. to ? should do the trick.

Jon
Sonny Software