Hi Ted and all other Nisus users who use Bookends,
In a recent post you wrote:
What enhancements would you like to see exactly?What I would like is: […] Deeper integration with Bookends for source notation
Live bibliography would perhaps be nice, although I think that’s mostly eye-candy. Some people say they want to see it right away in the document whether a format in Bookends needs an amendment. But since Bookends already displays all three, the final citation, the subsequent citation and the bibliographic reference in the Formatted reference window, controlling the format can easily been done in Bookends itself.
Nisus is already well integrated with Bookends; Floating Citations and deep links work well, and the ability to manipulate the bibliography in Nisus with macros is endless. I like, for example, being able to scan the final document with a macro which automatically places the word “Bibliography” exactly where I want it and have it be followed by the bibliography itself, then format it, all in a single macro in one go. I created a button in the Toolbar to trigger this macro and thus, to use your words, enhance the integration with Bookends. :–). It’s the button with the books.
I now usually start Bookends directly from within Nisus by pressing the button with the felt-tip pen icon (see screenshot below).
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I have also another button in the Toolbar next to the button with the felt-tip pen icon. Pressing that button creates a chronological table based on fictional works in Bookends. Why a chronological table, you may ask. Well, for historians, literary scholars and students chronology is often immensely important.
If someone wants to know how this is done, then here is a description. I created a new .fmt format in the Formatting Manager where by fictional works the year of first publication is output first and in bold, followed by Author, Title and Genre. I also created a new ‘Type’ for those fictional works which I call “Zeittafel” (chronological table, timetable…). To get a chronological table into Nisus, I search for works in Bookends which have “Zeittafel” as a Type, then press this button in Nisus which then runs a macro that imports the hits from Bookends and automatically converts the text to a table in Nisus. This is how it looks like in Nisus:
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Notice that only fields that are important for the chronological table were imported.