Sonny Software

I have the second edition of the book. But, I have to make it clear to the reader that I am still citing the original, the classic 1957 book. It is not a new 2002 publication. To make that clear inside the text, I was trying to put the original year alongside the second edition. In Jabref, what do is just insert the old publcation year alongside the new edition like this: 2002[1957]. It works fine. I tried to do the same with BE. But BE is stripping away the 1957 part when I export the reference.


I have seen the Orig Pub field. But, it has no user code (u15; or User12...) specification; so, I don't know how to use it in the Format Manager. I would have probably put the export format as year = $`{`d`}`[u15], $ or sth like that.

Sorry, I forget that I can redefine the existing fields. I redefined User4 to Edition year.

Now, my format is modified to year = $`{`d[u4]`}`, $

It is working perfectly. The interesting part is whenever the u4 is unfilled, BE is not exporting the empty []. I was worried about it. I just don't know how that happened. with some kind of magic like luck, BE is not exporting the empty [] whenever the field is empty.

I am now happy.

I suspect in your format you have "Use year-only for date". Uncheck that and Bookends will export 2002[1957]

As for which user field to use, it's each to see in the Format Manager. There's a popup menu called Fields below the Order fields. It shows you the field names for the Type you're looking at, with the designation next to it between {}'s.You'll see Orig Pub {u11} -- user 11. You can use this popup to insert the u11, not need to type it in.

Bookends not exporting the [] is not magic or luck -- it's programmed. Please see the User Guide for how Bookends handles fields with no text.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:There's a popup menu called Fields below the Order fields. It shows you the field names for the Type you're looking at, with the designation next to it between {}'s.You'll see Orig Pub {u11} -- user 11. You can use this popup to insert the u11, not need to type it in.

Oh, thank you. I didn't know about this. I have been inserting the fields manually. This is great.

Bookends not exporting the [] is not magic or luck -- it's programmed.

I know. It felt magic to me. Thank you for the foresightenedness. This is a well thought software: so pleasure to use.