Conditional formatting based on publication date?

[brianogilvie]

I'm preparing an article for the historical journal Intersections, which requires some particular formatting:

For works published in 1800 and after, the authors are indicated by last name and initials, and publication is indicated by Place: Date.

For works published before 1800, the authors are indicated by last name and first name(s), and publication is indicated by Place, Publisher: Date.

I know I can handle this situation by creating a new reference type for books before 1800, but I'm wondering whether there is conditional formatting to handle either of those differences. I didn't see anything in the User Guide about tests for conditional formatting, only conditions that apply if a given field is empty.

Thanks for any help!

[Jon]

No, I'm afraid there are far too many such arbitrary conditions that could be stipulated to create such a feature in Bookends. If you don't want to create two reference Types, one trick I can imagine is using a user-defined field (e.g. User1) to indicate whether the article is before or after 1800. Enter a space, for example, and then use the conditional formatting feature in Bookends that looks to see if a field is empty or not...

Jon
Sonny Software

[brianogilvie]

Hi Jon - the trick you mentioned should do the trick, so to speak! Thanks! I think I can use that for outputting the publication information. I can just replace the author name manually; there won't be that many references.