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- From: RMB@CUNYVMS1 (Robert Braham)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- Subject: Re: Usefullness of Ibid.
- Message-ID: <00960A8B.235AE606.10753@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 18:25:21 GMT
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- >From: Joel Lidov <JBLQC%CUNYVM.BITNET@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
-
- >I can offer one suggestion for using IBID to manage bibliographies, and
- >I hope it will encourage other users to offer more efficient methods.
-
- [rest of letter deleted]
-
- Thanks for an interesting and useful post. It is _these_ kinds
- of questions--not so much on how, technically, to get something
- done, but how best to go about using the information technology,
- that is sometimes most daunting, or causing of inefficiences
- (garbled word choice, but you get my drift).
-
- I have a number of similar questons/answers(?) re efficient
- use of Orbis--efficient for _my_ style of writing, note-taking,
- drafting, etc., and possibly for others--that I would like to
- pursue on this list. I am holding off starting a thread
- (what I hope will turn into a thread) for a few weeks/months (!)
- untill Orbis is generally delivered and can make some claims
- to stability.
-
- I will try your method w/ Ibid. I must say, over the last
- few years, I was annoyed at handling subsets all the time,
- and, even though it was a pain in the butt to change paths
- right and left, and at bootup (uneccesary in NB4, which allows
- easy selection of multiple bibs), I simply created a new
- bibliography for each project, transferred over overlapping
- items, and didn't even bother putting index deltas, extracting,
- and generating, when it came time; I just generated the whole
- database and called it a day. Of course this defeats
- one of the prime raison d'etre (what is plural raison in French?)
- of a database, but again, it's what your needs are at the moment,
- in addition to the technological tools available.
-
- Things seem to get a little more complicated re work processes
- w/ Orbis . . . .
-
- Robert Braham
- Graduate School of the City University of New York
- Internet: RMB@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
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