Sonny Software

I am evaluating using bookends and latex together and have some questions. I have a latex document that is split up into multiple files which are combined into one using \include. eg:

\include{ChapterIntro}
\include{ChapterBackground}
...

When I scan the master document, bookends doesn't scan the included files. Is there a way to get it to do this? (or automatically combining bib files when the files are scanned individually)

As a workaround, I have tried to export the entire database to a bibtex file (marking all and then exporting hits as bibtex). However, bookends crashes after roughly half of the references have been exported (about 400 of 912 references). I will e-mail techsupport about this issue.

I have found the function to generate a bibtex key and have a couple of questions relating to it. Is it possible to generate keys for all entries in the database at once and is there a way to change the format of the key eg.

Sutter. 2005 --> Sut05
Sutter and Touati. 2005 --> ST05
Sutter, Moller and Touati ---> SMT05
Sutter, Moller, Kern and Touati ----> SMKT05
Sutter, Moller, Kern, Rich and Touati ----> SMK+05

[from a post by somebody else]

Thanks,

liam

Hi, that's a lot of questions.

1. Bookends scans one file at a time.
2. Make sure you are using 9.0.2 -- there was a memory leak with export of BibTex to disk that we fixed a few iterations ago.
3. You can only generate keys for all references at once if you export/import.
4. The format of the automatic key is fixed.

Jon
Sonny Software

Piggy backing on this thread.
I am exporting my BE db to use in BibTeX. It worked last week.
Now I get this error message when opening in Bib

*** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value

It works when I try to export random entries just to test. I imagine one of my entries in BE has a problem, unless the problem is with Bib.

I upgraded to 9.08 and the latest BibTeX last week. But then, I have also added entries since then.

Erwin

I'm not completely sure what that error message means, but if it means you have an empty key field you can easily filx this in Bookends. Do a Find for all references in which User1 (or Key) is empty. If you find any, and they are among the references you exported, you can add a key.

Jon
Sonny Software

Nope, I thought about an empty required field. No luck there.
I'll call it a week-end and look into it again on Monday.

Thanks
Erwin