Sonny Software

Hi guys

Quick suggestion for the pages support in bookends (with is awesome). One problem is that you can't 'unformat' a formated document, that means adding references is a one time operation. Unfortuantely, that doesn't really mesh with how most of us write our papers - we're doing things like juggling page length that means we need to edit the page after the references are in, and frequently edit the references after too. To do that you need to be able to 'unformat' a document.

Although pages doesn't have hidden text, it does have the ability to link to a URL, and you can even style that text so it looks the same as other text. When bookends formats the pages it could put the details of the link to the bookends reference embedded into a URL, and put that link into the beginning of the reference (say, in the bracket). That would make an 'unformat document' command fairly easy to implement...

What do you think? This would make bookends support for pages complete!

Best,
Barry

Hi,

I think that's clever, but you'd have to tie the hidden citation to the final one (or if you edit the document and delete or remove the final citation the unscan would break). I do have an idea that might work for this purpose, but this issue is not at the front of the queue. I'll revisit it when more pressing things have been taken care of.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

Jon
Sonny Software