Crashes and Sort Order Problems
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:14 pm
I'm a new user to BE 8.1.3 and Mellel 2.0.1 and I'm experiencing some strange behavior. First, about every 4th scan or so, Bookends crashes. I thought this was only when initiated from Mellel, but it will do it from the Biblio->Bibliographic Formatter... dialog within BE, as well. It appears to happen just as it is formatting the output.
I'm using APA 5th, and it also doesn't seem to sort my bibliography correctly. for example, I get this (first 6 of 76 in my bibliography):
Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., & Silverstein, M. (1977). A pattern language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sutcliffe, A., & Mehandjiev, N. (2004). Introduction. Commun. ACM, 47(9), 31-32.
Mørch, A., Stevens, G., Won, M., Klann, M., Dittrich, Y., & Wulf, V. (2004). Component-based technologies for end-user development. Commun. ACM, 47(9), 59-62.
Girgensohn, A., & Shipman, F. M. (1992). Supporting knowledge acquisition by end users: tools and representations. Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's, 340-48.
Bergman, L., Lau, T., Castelli, V., & Oblinger, D. (2003). Personal Wizards: collaborative end-user programming. In H. Lieberman, F. Paternò, A. Repenning, & V. Wulf (Eds.), (pp. 7-11). Fort Lauderdale:
Beringer, J. (2004). Reducing Expertise Tension. Communications of the ACM, 47(9), 39-40.
In general, it is obvious that most of the entires are sorted correctly, but then there are a bunch that are seemingly randomly inserted.
I checked in the settings for APA 5th, and sure enough the sort was set to Author, Date, Title. To see what would happen, I changed it to 1st Author, Date, Other Authors. However, the new setting wouldn't stick! It again did not sort correctly, and when I went back in, the setting had reverted. I thought maybe this couldn't be edited as one of the defaults, so I copied the format to a new one and tried to make the change there -- same result.
Am I missing something obvious here? Help!
I'm using APA 5th, and it also doesn't seem to sort my bibliography correctly. for example, I get this (first 6 of 76 in my bibliography):
Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S., & Silverstein, M. (1977). A pattern language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sutcliffe, A., & Mehandjiev, N. (2004). Introduction. Commun. ACM, 47(9), 31-32.
Mørch, A., Stevens, G., Won, M., Klann, M., Dittrich, Y., & Wulf, V. (2004). Component-based technologies for end-user development. Commun. ACM, 47(9), 59-62.
Girgensohn, A., & Shipman, F. M. (1992). Supporting knowledge acquisition by end users: tools and representations. Proceedings of the 1992 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied computing: technological challenges of the 1990's, 340-48.
Bergman, L., Lau, T., Castelli, V., & Oblinger, D. (2003). Personal Wizards: collaborative end-user programming. In H. Lieberman, F. Paternò, A. Repenning, & V. Wulf (Eds.), (pp. 7-11). Fort Lauderdale:
Beringer, J. (2004). Reducing Expertise Tension. Communications of the ACM, 47(9), 39-40.
In general, it is obvious that most of the entires are sorted correctly, but then there are a bunch that are seemingly randomly inserted.
I checked in the settings for APA 5th, and sure enough the sort was set to Author, Date, Title. To see what would happen, I changed it to 1st Author, Date, Other Authors. However, the new setting wouldn't stick! It again did not sort correctly, and when I went back in, the setting had reverted. I thought maybe this couldn't be edited as one of the defaults, so I copied the format to a new one and tried to make the change there -- same result.
Am I missing something obvious here? Help!