[Papyrus-L] Why Windows?

[William H. Shepherd]

Well-said.

I am particularly wondering about entering non-European languages in titles (in my case, Greek and Hebrew). I've looked at the demos for Endnote and Biblioscape; Endnote has limited font choices, and Biblioscape seems to require a complicated workaround to mix fonts in a field. Anyone have any experience in this.

Of these two programs, Endnote was by far the easiest to use, and most like Papyrus in its interface. It also did a good job of seamlessly pulling references off the Web. Biblioscape forces you to put references into "folders," which I find a bit confusing. Also, the Biblioscape people seem to have trouble writing grammatical English.

I would add that all the programs I've looked at so far seem to recognize every field but my own, religious studies. I couldn't figure out how to put Biblioscape references into Chicago format; Endnote did it easily, but wrong.

Bill Shepherd
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dr Andrew Wilson 
  To: papyrus-l at rsd.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 5:05 AM
  Subject: RE: [Papyrus-L] Why Windows?


  Some comments on the need for a Windows version, and possible alternative packages:

  WINDOWS:

  For those who missed the repeated discussions of this question over the several years, the major flaws of Papyrus for DOS which we needed addressed in a Windows version are:

  1. Lack of full extended Latin alphabet support, and non-Latin alphabets. ASCII codepage workarounds do not do the full job - I simply can't enter properly the Eastern European words or names which include the hacek or L-with-a-line-through-it symbols; nor can I enter Classical or modern Greek in titles etc.

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