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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:46:10 IST
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- From: "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
- Subject: Re: Ibid +/-
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 11 Sep 92 08:12:24 CST from <GA3662@SIUCVMB>
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- I am still a supporter of Ibid.; I have at least 5 different
- databases on my disk, for general items ("default bibliography"),
- all the books in my office, all the books in the small Porter
- Inst. library (about 4000), all the offprints in my office,
- articles in PTL and PT... It all has worked reasonably well.
- It has been extremely helpful with a number of dissertations, too.
- It also works for Hebrew items under certain constraints (bibl.
- producible by manual template only). In short, I wonder why
- people have not been able to work with it satisfactorily.
-
- As for selecting items from a database, of course it's a terrible
- job if done manually. It is better to use Ibid itself for selecting
- only those records you need, create a set, then produce a file
- in Ibid format (via the "File" option, when generating a bibliography).
- All that's needed then is adding ASCII 250 (the small dot
- you see at the end of the fields; ALT-spacebar on NB standard keyboard)
- using the CI command (ci ¢enter¢ascii 250 enter¢, then eliminating this
- sign after <PG> (in the expanded mode). This can be done fairly quickly
- even for 3000 items. Alternatively use the select.run XPL macro,
- or write one to delete a complete record with the cursor anywhere
- on any field in that record.
-
- Of course Ibid is not perfect, and it gets at times erratic, but
- I could almost always trace the source of trouble, like a print
- mode in front of a filed, etc. (most of the troubles discussed over again
- on this list).
-
- Itamar E-Z
-