Sonny Software

Hi,

I am currently attaching all my literature files to their Bookends entries and I just remembered there was a feature to automatically cite the page numbers together with the marked text in an attached PDF. I found the option to make a notecard from the selected text including the page number. There is no way to directly cite AND having the page number included in the temporary citation WITHOUT creating a notecard, is there?

Another small problem I encountered when attaching my files is this: I have the "rename PDF" box checked, yet the renaming only takes place when the file is simultaneously moved to my attachment folder. When it's already there (as is the case with most of my files) the name is not changed, unless I manually do "rename PDF". Is that a bug or is it supposed to be like that?

Thanks in advance!

Streghetta wrote:
I am currently attaching all my literature files to their Bookends entries and I just remembered there was a feature to automatically cite the page numbers together with the marked text in an attached PDF. I found the option to make a notecard from the selected text including the page number. There is no way to directly cite AND having the page number included in the temporary citation WITHOUT creating a notecard, is there?

That's right, it has to be in a Bookends notecard (not a virtual notecard). This is only a convenience feature -- you can easily enter the cited page yourself once the temp cite is inserted into the document (i.e., add "@12" at the end of the temp cite yourself).

Another small problem I encountered when attaching my files is this: I have the "rename PDF" box checked, yet the renaming only takes place when the file is simultaneously moved to my attachment folder. When it's already there (as is the case with most of my files) the name is not changed, unless I manually do "rename PDF". Is that a bug or is it supposed to be like that?

When attaching a PDF, Bookends will not rename it if it is already in the attachments folder (as you note, you can have Bookends rename it later). You should NEVER put pdfs in the attachment folder yourself. Never. You let Bookends do this for you. When Bookends makes an attachment it makes sure the pdf name is unique. If it's not, Bookends may find the wrong attachment when it goes to look it up (Bookends doesn't store attachment pathnames, it only stores attachment names -- the pathnames it stores are to the folder in which attachments exist).

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks for the quick reply, Jon!

Actually, I was looking for something like copy-paste + page number or copy citation and modifiers including the selected text. As I only started to use PDFs in bookends, I am copying my abstracts from another program into the "notes" section and obviously don't have them separated into single notes = citations. But it's fine, I'll just have to be more consistent in the future!

I won't put them into the attachments folder myself anymore, I promise. But for the time being I changed the default attachments folder to the one I already had all my articles stored in, because that's the one where I want to have them, and it's still work in progress attaching all of them. Yes, there have been little problems now and there, but since usually they are all consistently named there isn't even so much work renaming them for Bookends