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I'm evaluating bookends as a replacement for endnote (and very impressed so far). Some questions:

1. Does the demo version have Bibliography Formatter/Make Bib functionality removed? If not, why is it greyed out for me?

2. I took a working latex doc, entered a single citation (using Bookends "copy citation" and paste, which generated "\cite{Creighton2004a}", as I expected). Then I tried "scan document" on my latex file. Bookends claims "the citation "1 1 1" was found in five references. Which one did you want?" But this doesn't make sense. And it's displaying some text from my latex preamble in the dialog box below the five listed Bookends citations. What am I doing wrong here?

If I can get this to work, I'll purchase a license and be a very happy camper.

Thanks,
Cheryl

cherylchase wrote:1. Does the demo version have Bibliography Formatter/Make Bib functionality removed? If not, why is it greyed out for me?

Hi Cheryl,

The demo is fully functional (except a limit of 50 references).

It's probably greyed out because you have no references selected (no hits). This function works on the hits.

You can convert selections in the List View to hits by clicking on the checkbox (hold down the Shift key whan you click and ALL selected items take on the same "hit setting" as the reference you clicked in).

2. I took a working latex doc, entered a single citation (using Bookends "copy citation" and paste, which generated "\cite{Creighton2004a}", as I expected). Then I tried "scan document" on my latex file. Bookends claims "the citation "1 1 1" was found in five references. Which one did you want?" But this doesn't make sense. And it's displaying some text from my latex preamble in the dialog box below the five listed Bookends citations. What am I doing wrong here?

Do you have Preferences set so that Bookends assumes in-text citations are "BibTeX"? If not, Bookends will think any open curly bracket is a citation delimiter, and so will stop at every BibTeX formatting command...

Jon
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