[Papyrus-L] An observation and a question about Papyrus

[Hugh Gunz]

One thing about Biblioscape that doesn't seem to have come up in discussion 
yet, but which might well be of interest to anyone running a research group 
or who works in several different locations, is the webserver it includes 
(in the "Pro" package). I haven't tried it, but it's supposed to allow 
approved users to have either read or read/write access (depending on the 
setup chosen) to the database across the Internet, using a web browser.

Hugh Gunz

At 13:29 2001-10-13 -0400, Raisa Deber wrote:
>At 09:44 PM 10/12/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Rick Lentz's suggestion about member support for further development 
>>basically amounts to suggesting that RSD should go public, if there is to 
>>be substantial support.  That's a big step and probably distasteful to 
>>Dave and his crew.
>>
>>I seem to be the only one who doesn't understand why abandoning the move 
>>toward a Windows version is such a calamity.  It is evidently such an 
>>elementary thing that everyone else takes it for granted, but someone 
>>please explain to me why we would want a Windows version?  What am I 
>>missing with the present DOS version?  This is not a joke.  Please explain.
>
>A few things.  First, the ability to handle long file names.  I do a lot 
>of collaborative work, and the files are not always unique in the first 
>six characters.  Second, some issues around use of special character sets 
>(e.g., if the reference is in a foreign language).  Third, use of the clip 
>board can be a pain - I use Windows 2000, and it seems to make random 
>changes to the clip board file if I use the Papyrus default name (not to 
>mention Papyrus' habit of forgetting that I asked it to use a file and 
>needing to have this initialized over and over again); this really fouls 
>up inserting references into manuscripts.
>
>I agree; I've been checking out the competition a bit (don't have time for 
>anything thorough) and it does not seem to be nearly as good as 
>Papyrus.  Those of you who have switched - and I still hope I won't have 
>to - which systems allow you to keep the Papyrus reference numbers?  Our 
>whole system, being used by our research team (and yes, I purchased a few 
>copies, even though the license policy said that wasn't necessary), is all 
>filed by Papyrus number, with a '"located" set of keywords to indicate who 
>has hard copy.  Switching to any system which doesn't allow that - e.g., 
>those which do dynamic allocation of record numbers - is simply not 
>on.  That being said, Biblioscape seems better than End Note, Reference 
>Manager, or Pro Cite - but the details just aren't there, and I really do 
>not have the time for trying to investigate systems and port them 
>over.  So, we're staying with Papyrus for now - but I'm starting to think 
>about the long term, and how much we can rely on Papyrus to still be 
>there.  (I have this awful tendency to like legacy systems.)
>
>Dave - these cries of anguish indicate the high esteem in which we hold 
>you and your team.  Are you burned out with Papyrus?  What's the 
>story?  How can we help?
>Best wishes
>Raisa Deber
>
>>Christopher K. Starr
>>Dep't of Life Sciences
>>University of the West Indies
>>St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
>>
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