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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:21:05 EDT
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- From: Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM>
- 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 would second the suggestion to give IBID another try. Even if your
- bibliographic needs number in the low hundreds, it is an enormous assist.
- There was a bug in the original edition that interfered with adding and
- deleting printers, but a fix disk did fix it. The current version will
- only dump bibliographic data into a footnote, but it is usally much
- easier to edit this pretyped material than to type it anew. At the same
- time it adds a bibliography delta to the text. I've been asked to
- recast a set of notes by reducing them to short title and appending a
- bibliography: this will involve mostly using the delete key on the
- notes, and telling IBID to EXTRACT and GENERATE. But most of all I
- appreciate the ability to accumulate and correct bibliographic
- information gradually, and at any given moment, usually for me the last
- moment, produce a fully formated bibliography.
-
- I'm sure other bibliographic programs described here will do the same
- tricks, but the integration with the word processor, and especially the
- ability to copy names and titles taken down as notes into the template,
- are a big convenience. The starter bibliography can be renamed, so that
- it is not part of your database (rename also the index files), and
- scanned at leisure in the word-processor. Useful items can be defined
- and appended to a NBBIB.DAT file (without their numbers!), and
- incorporated into your database at your convenience. (It can also be
- ignored).
-