Problem with the new syntax for embedded citations

[johnbrobb 0]

This is to alert other users of TMG of a change to the syntax of embedded citations which may truncate their citation detail. According to Bob Velke, one of the "improvements" to v7 was announced thus:

 

o Embedded citations now support inclusion of the citation memo,

e.g., [CIT:]124; citation detail; citation memo[:CIT].

 

What this means is that if your citation detail text happens to include a ";"(SEMICOLON), that semicolon and any text following it will be treated as a citation memo, and will be truncated from your reports. I do not know of any way of fixing this problem except by going through all my embedded citations, scanning for citation detail text which uses includes a semicolon, changing that to some unlikely-to-be-used token (say "$%"), then creating a macro in the wordprocessor program to which I export my reports to change "$%" back to the ";" I originally intended. If anyone has any better idea about how to fix this problem, I would be grateful to know of it.

[Jim Byram 0]

Thanks, John. Noted.

 

Terry suggests that you should be able to use the new escape character (\) to 'escape' the ';' characters in your embedded citations.

 

Change "text; text" to "text\; text".

 

Of course, you still need to locate them.

 

Terry and I just tested this and the escape character doesn't work in that context. I wrote Bob and requested that he change that so that the escape character does work.

[johnbrobb 0]

Thanks, Jim (and Terry). We can only hope. I wouldn't have picked this up if I hadn't taken the precaution of producing the same report in both v7 and v6, and comparing them line for line until the output was discrepant.

[Jim Byram 0]

John,

 

The escape character should work in embedded citations in v7.02.

 

Jim