This is the first of a few questions, all of which arise from a post I made on the DEVONThink forum a little while ago (https://discourse.devontechnologies.com ... dt/74644/1). I've finished my doctoral thesis off and I'm taking a bit of time to see if I can get Bookends and Mellel to produce similar output to what I can get from biblatex-sbl (recognising that the SBL style is an enormous pain to use, but I have no choice as it's the standard in my field). I have a customised version of the SBLHS2 format, and I'm trying to replicate the BibLaTeX features which meant I ended up using LaTeX for the thesis — and by the way, huge thanks to Jon for the ease of updating a synced BibTeX file, which I use constantly. One of the users on the DT forum has suggested that everything I'm trying to do is straightforward in Bookends, which I'm keen to do, so I figured I'd ask here. It's complicated because a fair bit of this is probably Mellel/Word rather than Bookends directly, or the integration between the two.
One of the things I'm trying to do in Mellel is generate an index of authors. In LaTeX/BibLaTeX I can do this fairly easily, with each page reference in the author index linking back to the PDF page where the citation occurs. I can't see that this is possible to do from Bookends, and it's not obvious to me that Bookends could have the information it needs to generate such an index, but another user on the DT forum said,
The screenshot the other user posted looks like a count of the number of references in the Group for each author, not an index of citation pages, but I thought I'd check (by the way, I can't find a way to generate this from the Groups menu, but I think the user above is referring to a Term List of Authors).Not true. You create an author index via the Groups menu. You can then select and copy the names and paste them into other applications.
Thoughts on this?
Best,
Lyndon