Sonny Software

Hi,

Until now, I have entered page ranges of journal articles and other resources requiring this using the hyphen key ("23-34"). Now, I see that I should have used an en-dash instead ("23–34"), because this would be typographically correct. So, I tried to do a global change in my database. However, this doesn't seem to work the way I thought it would. First, I can't enter an en-dash in the replace-field, and, second, Bookends even seems to be unable to find the hyphens in the pages field.

Is there a way to handle this replacement workflow properly?

Thanks,
Matthias

Hi,

What do you mean by "can't enter the endash in the replace field"? I can, by typing Option-- (Option-dash). And the find/replace works for me. If this doesn't work for you, please contact tech support for followup.

BTW, replacing the dash with an endash is unnecessary. If you enter

p– (that's p + endash)

in the order field of your format, Bookends will output an endash when it separates the page numbers. It really doesn't matter how you enter the information in the reference itself.

Jon
Sonny Software