Sonny Software

What exactly am I doing wrong?

I'd like the abbreviations in the SBL journal glossary to appear in lieu of the full journal names. I've change the field in my bib format from "f" to "j," I have the proper journal glossary selected in the Utilities menu, and I have "Short Name" set in preferences.

Am I missing a step?

thanks!

That's no our glossary, it's contributed by danzac, so I'll let the contributor respond. But as a general comment, the abbreviation is never substituted, it is either the short name or the full name.

Jon
Sonny Software

Yes, the "short name" is what I'd like to show up. Pardon me for being imprecise.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the "short name" is what I'd like to show up. Pardon me for being imprecise.

You are pardoned.

Note that in the SBL glossary the abbreviation and the short name are identical.

I just tried this with a different glossary in which they are different, and it worked as expected: I made an abbreviation for a journal, entered that in the journal field, and when I tabbed out the short name was substituted. If I changed Preferences to full name, the full name was substituted.

If you still can't get this to work, please contact me directly and we'll work through it.

Jon
Sonny Software

Perhaps I am misunderstanding one of the functions. When I scan my Mellel document, I would like Bookends to use the short name when creating the citations and bibliography.

For example, I'd like something that looks roughly like this:

Doe, J. "An Article," JBL 51 (19xx) 14-28.

Where "JBL" is the short name of "Journal of Biblical Literature"?

Is this possible?

thanks...

Yes, that is a function of the format, though. Use j for short journal name, f for full journal name.

Any further discussion of this topic should be via tech support, not this forum.


Jon
Sonny Software

StevietheB, I'm not sure if you've fixed this up via email with Jon, but if not you can contact me at danzac@gmail.com. If you are wanting the short name/abbreviation showing up IN your reference window 'journal' field, you choose that in the General Preferences.