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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 12:45:09 EDT
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- From: Allan Needell <NASSH100@SIVM>
- Subject: Creating a textbase/mailmerge cocktail
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- In-Reply-To: note of 07/24/92 04:54
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- From: Allan Needell
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- Mervyn,
-
- Ibid files are structured exactly like mailmerge LST files (except that a
- record need not have blank lines (ALT-space CR) for each empty field as in
- Mailmerge. Field entries in Ibid begin with a two-letter code (e.g. AU, ST,
- DA,,,,) followed by a colon and then the content of the field entry. Each
- field entry ends with the ATL-space CR combo, each record ends with a page
- delta. Their is a R# field (Record number) which begins each entry.
-
- I see no reason you can't do exactly what you propose. Its too bad you can't
- spring for Ibid+ though. It flexible both in input and output. For example, I
- keep a database of just the sort you describe using Ibid+. Occasionally I
- generate a chronologically ordered output in exactly the form (including
- footnotes) that I use for my general notecard textbase. I then index the
- resulting file into my textbase and use it while writing.
-
- Allan Needell
- National Air & Space Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- Washington, DC 20560 (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
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