Strangeness in metatypes
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:51 pm
I am opening a new thread; otherwise this will probably be lost in the previous large one. I have a specific problem to present after an observation about the Reference Link Manager.
As background, I am working with a special BE database that has one base dictionary entry and two child entries.
I have found that the Reference Link Manager is easily confused, and I think inconsistent. Different things happen so unexpectedly that I don't have a clear flow of what happens after what. When I add a new child to a parent, with the parent in the top well, I sometimes see a very short, incompletely formatted 'reference' in the child line; often it is just the last name of the author, such as 'Osborn', or perhaps the full name. If I double-click on the top well, then back on the child line, it can become more confused, flipping the parent and child in the top and bottom, with incomplete information. If I close the Inspector window and open it, it usually displays fully formatted biblio entries, although I may have seen instances when it does not look right. I don't know how to suggest reproducing this except trying different parent and child actions to see what it does.
The problem: I have an RTF file with several temp cites introduced by cmd-Y from the test db. It looks like this:
As background, I am working with a special BE database that has one base dictionary entry and two child entries.
I have found that the Reference Link Manager is easily confused, and I think inconsistent. Different things happen so unexpectedly that I don't have a clear flow of what happens after what. When I add a new child to a parent, with the parent in the top well, I sometimes see a very short, incompletely formatted 'reference' in the child line; often it is just the last name of the author, such as 'Osborn', or perhaps the full name. If I double-click on the top well, then back on the child line, it can become more confused, flipping the parent and child in the top and bottom, with incomplete information. If I close the Inspector window and open it, it usually displays fully formatted biblio entries, although I may have seen instances when it does not look right. I don't know how to suggest reproducing this except trying different parent and child actions to see what it does.
The problem: I have an RTF file with several temp cites introduced by cmd-Y from the test db. It looks like this:
After scanning that file I see this:{Evans, 2000, #235111}
{Osborn, 2000, #34477}
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{Osborn, 2000, #34477}
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{Osborn, 2000, #34477}
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{Osborn, 2000, #34477}
The problem is that second and subsequent temp cites to "{Osborn, 2000, #34477}" only result in "Osborn". Is that expected behaviour?C.A. Evans, “Messianism,” in dictionary entry 2000). dictionary entry cite
G. R. Osborn, “Messianism,” in dictionary entry 2000). dictionary entry cite
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Osborn
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Osborn
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Osborn