Word / Scrivener integration with Bookends
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:30 am
Does anyone have suggestions for a workflow integrating Bookends with WYSIWYG word processors, specifically Microsoft Word and Scrivener. My default text processor will be TexPad or Scrivener , but I also have to use Word for one project, so Bookends needs to be easily accessible there, too.
The "typical use of Microsoft Word and Bookends" , as described in the user guide, seems pretty cumbersome to me, since there are multiple steps involved (In Word: copy name of author, go to applescripts menu, click "Find in Bookends", then, once I've identified the item in Bookends, go to "Edit" menu, click "copy citation", manually return to Word and then it appears automatically only if Word is set as default text processor. Otherwise I need to manually return to Word, again go to the applescripts menu, click on "Insert citation". The only alternative to this lengthy procedure seems to be: bringing Bookends to the front, searching for the reference there, drag and dropping it into Word.)
Isn't there an easier way than that — or am I missing something? With my previous bibliography managers there always used to be a toolbar (add-on) for Word, which allowed me to search for a citation from WITHIN the text editor (without switching to bibliography manager), and adding that reference in basically 2 steps (type in name, hit enter). Can anyone suggest ways of automating Booends/words so it approximates this procedure?
I haven't fiddled around with Scrivener but would be grateful for advice there, too, since I'll also work with Bookends in Scrivener (and want to output to PDF via LaTeX).
The "typical use of Microsoft Word and Bookends" , as described in the user guide, seems pretty cumbersome to me, since there are multiple steps involved (In Word: copy name of author, go to applescripts menu, click "Find in Bookends", then, once I've identified the item in Bookends, go to "Edit" menu, click "copy citation", manually return to Word and then it appears automatically only if Word is set as default text processor. Otherwise I need to manually return to Word, again go to the applescripts menu, click on "Insert citation". The only alternative to this lengthy procedure seems to be: bringing Bookends to the front, searching for the reference there, drag and dropping it into Word.)
Isn't there an easier way than that — or am I missing something? With my previous bibliography managers there always used to be a toolbar (add-on) for Word, which allowed me to search for a citation from WITHIN the text editor (without switching to bibliography manager), and adding that reference in basically 2 steps (type in name, hit enter). Can anyone suggest ways of automating Booends/words so it approximates this procedure?
I haven't fiddled around with Scrivener but would be grateful for advice there, too, since I'll also work with Bookends in Scrivener (and want to output to PDF via LaTeX).