Sonny Software

Hello,

I am trying to have Mellel/Bookends format a citation like so: "Miller (2009) says..." instead of "Miller (Miller 2009) says ...". I have BibTeX citation delimiters enabled, so the tempory citation within the brackets is "Miller2009". I have tried both "%Miller2009" and "-Miller2009", but none of these work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Christian

I don'' believe those modifiers work with BibTeX scans (I'm out of town and can't check right now). I should update the documentation.

Jon
Sonny Softwaer

I see. Too bad. That would be a good feature to have in the future.

I'll try to construct a regular expression to search/replace this pattern automatically then.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work because the Mellel Find/Replace Feature does not treat References as normal text. That's unfortunate, because it will result in a lot of ugly citations ("Miller (Miller, 2009) says..."). It would be great if "Omit Author/Date only" could be implemented for BibTex citation key mode, too.

Thanks.

Unless your Mellel document has complex formatting, you can export as RTF, search/replace in Word (or Text Edit, or NWP, or whatever you have), and then import RTF back to Mellel.

Jon
Sonny Software

BTW, I'm out of town so don't do this now, but by the end of the week contact tech support directly. A Bookends BibTeX scan (using \cite{} as the in-text citation delimiter) can only be done on text files. You say you'rs using Mellel, so I don't understand. I'm not actually sure what you are doing. Again, let's move this off the forum, this is a particular case and it should be handled directly.

Jon
Sonny Software