Editing bibliography to something non-standard
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 5:16 pm
I am not sure whether this is a Bookends or a word processor issue. I would be happy for the solution to involve Bookends, MS Word, LibreOffice or Nisus Writer. And sorry if this is covered in the User Guide, though I did try to locate it there. Maybe the answer is a simple page reference in the User Guide.
My problem is that when Bookends creates an RTF file containing a bibliography, the bibliography appears as a field that I cannot edit using, for example, a Sort command. I would like either to have Bookends create a bibliography that is regular formatted text, or to have a word processor convert the field into regular text. But maybe the answer is that I should be doing things differently, so I will explain why I want to do this rather than trying to do all the bibliography design in Bookends using the format editor.
I am preparing a book about a person, and I want to have three separate bibliographies: (a) The person's academic publications; (b) his popular writings (newspaper articles); and (c) publications, including newspaper articles, by other people. (I might decide also to separate his journal articles and books into two lists.) I have a bibliography format where I have prefixed all newspaper articles with [news]. So if the bibliography were regular formatted text, and not a field, I would be able to sort, cut and paste the references into the required arrangement, but none of my word processors allows me to sort the bibliography entries that are created by Bookends.
For the bibliographies for my subject, I can easily delete his name from single-authored publications using the word processor, so that they appear in the form:
(1969a) "The use of bibliographies", Journal of Writing 56(2), 456-9.
However, I will have to manually deal with multi-authored publications where I would want them to be something like:
(1970) (& A.N. Other) "Alternative forms of bibliography," Journal of Writing 57(1), 20-1.
Another problem is that sorting will fail to identify references where my subject is not the first named author.
Fortunately my my subject did not write many co-authored pieces, so this is probably manageable, though an automatic way of handling this would of course be more reliable, as I will probably have to do this several times as doing it will reveal mistakes that need to be corrected, each round of corrections leading to a new version of the manuscript.
Advice would be welcome, either on how to create an editable (sortable) bibliography, or on a better way of solving the problem. I thought about using getting all the cited references into groups, and then using BE's subject bibliographies, but this won't work because I need to generate suitable in-text citations.
My problem is that when Bookends creates an RTF file containing a bibliography, the bibliography appears as a field that I cannot edit using, for example, a Sort command. I would like either to have Bookends create a bibliography that is regular formatted text, or to have a word processor convert the field into regular text. But maybe the answer is that I should be doing things differently, so I will explain why I want to do this rather than trying to do all the bibliography design in Bookends using the format editor.
I am preparing a book about a person, and I want to have three separate bibliographies: (a) The person's academic publications; (b) his popular writings (newspaper articles); and (c) publications, including newspaper articles, by other people. (I might decide also to separate his journal articles and books into two lists.) I have a bibliography format where I have prefixed all newspaper articles with [news]. So if the bibliography were regular formatted text, and not a field, I would be able to sort, cut and paste the references into the required arrangement, but none of my word processors allows me to sort the bibliography entries that are created by Bookends.
For the bibliographies for my subject, I can easily delete his name from single-authored publications using the word processor, so that they appear in the form:
(1969a) "The use of bibliographies", Journal of Writing 56(2), 456-9.
However, I will have to manually deal with multi-authored publications where I would want them to be something like:
(1970) (& A.N. Other) "Alternative forms of bibliography," Journal of Writing 57(1), 20-1.
Another problem is that sorting will fail to identify references where my subject is not the first named author.
Fortunately my my subject did not write many co-authored pieces, so this is probably manageable, though an automatic way of handling this would of course be more reliable, as I will probably have to do this several times as doing it will reveal mistakes that need to be corrected, each round of corrections leading to a new version of the manuscript.
Advice would be welcome, either on how to create an editable (sortable) bibliography, or on a better way of solving the problem. I thought about using getting all the cited references into groups, and then using BE's subject bibliographies, but this won't work because I need to generate suitable in-text citations.