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Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:55 am
by jwilhelm
Hello,
i am experiencing a strange problem after the recent updates of Mellel and Bookends (Jan 09).
The formatted citations - for which i use years - are after another document scan showing up only "???", i.e. three question marks.
I tried to figure out what might be the source of the problem by trying out several preferences settings in both apps, but, the final formatted citation stayed "???". (New app version.png)
After putting back the two applications to the older versions via TimeMachine the problem was solved (Older version.png).
Strange.
Attached you find the two differences as screenshots.
Johannes
Older version
Older version
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New app version
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Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:05 am
by jwilhelm
Hi again,
i found out that this was discussed in the Redler's forum recently.
http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1895
There seems to be a "silent update" of Bookends that solved the problem (in my case).
Just download it again from Bookends' site and reinstall.
Johannes

Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:51 am
by Jon
Right, this is an inadvertent side effect of a change made in Mellel 2.6. This will be rolled back in a bug-fix release, according to RedleX. But as Johannes noted, I put in a workaround in a 10.4.3 silent update, if you need it right now (or revert to Mellel 2.5 until 2.6.1 is out).

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:45 pm
by pheidole
disconnect between what is there and what it says is there
disconnect between what is there and what it says is there
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disconnect between what is there and what it says is there
disconnect between what is there and what it says is there
Picture 1.png (41.43 KiB) Viewed 7975 times
I am having a similar problem to the previous post. I updated to the latest bookends, but when I insert a new citation (which Mellel recognizes as such and displays it in its biography list) it turns out formatted as a different citation!

Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:01 pm
by pheidole
An update--
I downloaded the latest version of Bookends first. That is when this behavior showed up.
I then checked to see if there was a Mellel upgrade (there was), but downloading it did not change the behavior.

It is like a big frameshift error--any new citation I upload gets formatted as something different.

Your help is appreciated on this one.

Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:08 pm
by pheidole
And I have rebuilt the bibliography.
And there is no obvious connection between the ref # of the citation I intended, and the one that shows up.

Re: Mellel Formatted citations

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:52 pm
by Jon
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http://www.sonnysoftware.com/phpBB3/vie ... f=2&t=2038

Jon
Sonny Software