anyway, the thing's got a free trial- one could try rather than making apriori judgments. old XP machine gave up its ghost to the macmini. If they can't recognize the importance of organizing a product website to make it easy to navigate and to find critical info quickly, I'm not the least bit confident their software would be any better. Quote:Originally posted by NuVector:quote:Originally posted by Catullus:what about nota bene? Aside from not supporting the Mac, their website alone would discourage me from purchasing this product. For humanities, it's basically useless.Saying that you come back to Endnote because it isn't buggy, sounds like a satire to me …

As soon as the citation style is a bit more complex than the most simple English-based hard science style you're out of luck. And no, it doesn't 'support pretty much any kind of citation style imaginable'. Endnote is an overpriced buggy piece of crap which should be avoided at any costs. When you have dozens of footnotes/endnotes and a program screws them up, it is a really, really shitty time fixing them. Most colleges have site licenses and give it away for free to their students.I tried Sente, Bookends, Zotero, and Mendeley and I am back to Endnote because it is the only one that integrates with Word without producing weird bugs. It supports pretty much any kind of citation style imaginable. allow highlights to be removed so that the document can be printed or turned back on again.Īfter many years of using Mellel, I am switching back to Word 11 and would find this function very, very helpful.Quote:Originally posted by relyt:Endnote is pretty much the standard in academia. There should be a final option (another AppleScript?) that would toggle the highlights - i.e. as soon as a citation is entered, it gets highlighted. If he choses to have them highlighted, two different shades of blue (like in Mellel) should automatically highlight temporary and formatted citations, i.e. In an ideal scenario, the user would be allowed to select whether he wants citations highlighted or not. a very superficial interaction that would be, nonetheless, very helpful when working with a long text. I am really talking only about highlighting - i.e.

Now, for my highlighting question, I am far from suggesting the type of object that one finds in Mellel. And I just realized, that's exactly what Zotero does out of the box. Thanks for the shortcuts link - it works. Shortcuts would make the interaction much more efficient and highlights would be a tremendous help for working with the text, making sure the formatted citations look ok etc.

I understand that Mellel is Bookends-aware in a way that Word 2011 is not, but Bookends clearly has a way - via AppleScript - of talking to Word, it can even unscan a document when temp citations are hidden, so, in theory, at least, my request seems not completely insane. text between delimiters in one color, but also every formatted citation in another color - again something that we have in Mellel? Would it be possible (via Visual Basic or Macro or whatever these things are call in M$ world) for Bookends to make Word automatically highlight every temporary citation, i.e. Would it be possible for Bookends to include shortcuts for the Apple Script, preferably the same that are used in Mellel? (Zotero Standalone does exactly that - the shortcuts appear in the Apple Script menu).Ģ. I have to questions about the Bookends/Word 2011 interface.ġ.

Mellel add citation hotkey