Anyone else using Bookends and care to comment?
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 3:57 pm
I have a quite long and complex document, which I've been working on in Mellel + Bookends for some time now. Recently, I've been experiencing intermittent problems with the formatting instructions sent from Bookends not being followed when the citation is copied over into Mellel, e.g. where a book title should be italicized, it copies over in the regular font. Even instructions such as "Exclude Authors and Title" in Bookends' "Special handling of final citation" are not being followed.
The strange thing is that if I create a new Mellel document and try to insert the same in-text citations in it from Bookends, it works flawlessly. This leads me to think that some issue must have developed in the Mellel document which I am working on that is interfering with the correct formatting of in-text citations. I don't know of any equivalent in Mellel to the Repair and Rebuild options that are available in Bookends for dealing with database corruption. If anyone has any troubleshooting tips, I'd be most grateful if you could share them!
The strange thing is that if I create a new Mellel document and try to insert the same in-text citations in it from Bookends, it works flawlessly. This leads me to think that some issue must have developed in the Mellel document which I am working on that is interfering with the correct formatting of in-text citations. I don't know of any equivalent in Mellel to the Repair and Rebuild options that are available in Bookends for dealing with database corruption. If anyone has any troubleshooting tips, I'd be most grateful if you could share them!