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From the user guide: "Bookends can’t display superscripts or subscripts in a field."

Will this change in the upcoming release?

thanks,


Guy

No. Bookends will create super and subscripts when it makes bibliographies with styled text, but it can't display them in its own editfields.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:No. Bookends will create super and subscripts when it makes bibliographies with styled text, but it can't display them in its own editfields.

Jon
Sonny Software

I don't like this either. It is not a terribly big deal, but in Biblical studies scrolls, papyri, ostraca, and manuscripts are assigned numbers in superscripts, and hence they appear often in titles (book and journal).

(as an aside, this is one of my 'suggestions' in my recent Bookends review that appeared in the SBL Forum this month)

Jon wrote:No. Bookends will create super and subscripts when it makes bibliographies with styled text, but it can't display them in its own editfields.

Hi Jon,

I have wondered about this myself; how exactly does this work? I just pasted in a title which included superscripts from Mellel to Bookends (title field). As you state, the superscript does not work in Bookends’ own fields, so I copied (selected formatted) and pasted it back into Mellel, but the superscripts were lost. How exactly do we ‘tag’ superscripts as superscript?

Kindest regards,
Shayne

The development environment Bookends uses doesn't support super/subscripts in edit fields. But Bookends uses metacharacters that do this when you move data out of Bookends (to a bibliography, for example). The defaults (which can be changed) are ^ (superscript) and | (subscript -- that's the pipe character). So,

2^2

will be output as 2 squared.

Please refer to the User Guide for details.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks Jon.

It works well.

Kindest regards,
Shayne

maybe I'm blind, but is it possible to use sub- and superscript also in formats? I can't imagine this isn't working, but if I use ^u2^d e. g. which should be display the edition superscripted in front of the date, this doesn't work. in my example in the bibliography "72004" is displayed instead of ^7^2004.

in the prefs ^ is set as superscript character.

thanks for your help.

The super/subscript escape charaters work in references, not formats.

Jon
Sonny Software

hm, then I would suggest this as a feature request.

Why. What journal/publisher uses this?

Jon
Sonny Software

to print the edition superscripted directly in front of the year is not the only but a very common way to make bibliographies in german social sciences.

Reiner wrote:to print the edition superscripted directly in front of the year is not the only but a very common way to make bibliographies in german social sciences.

As a German social scientist I can confirm this (before and after the year)

After thinking about this a bit, I realized that Bookends should actually handle this in formts now. I tried it for a bibliography entry and it worked fine. A snippet of the format is

a. ^u2^d

where the edition is in field user2.

Jon
Sonny Software

strange, this is exactly what I tried. but it does not work for me. I just tried it again but the result in Mellel is e. g. 72004 nothing superscripted at all.

would be fine if somebody have an idea how to solve this.

best regards, reiner

Any chance you changed the superscript character in Preferences? If you send the bibliography to the Bibliography Window, do you see the caret?

Jon
Sonny Software