[Papyrus-L] Moving from Papyrus to a Windows-based Bibliographic Reference Manager

[Martin Evans]

hi

i'd like to see your instructions (and underlying code) for Word.

I could never get a working macro for word, so our stuff for biblioscape is 
all in wordperfect


and thanks for the "plug"

m

At 12:41 PM 8/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>--On 31 July 2002 12:59 -0500 "Barden, Howard (MED, LUNAR)" 
><Howard.Barden at med.ge.com> wrote:
>
>>I currently have over 13,000 references in Papyrus, but am thinking of
>>moving to a Window's-based platform. I am wondering if anyone has had
>>problems in moving Papyrus references to one of the popular
>>Window's-based programs such as Reference Manager?  Is this move
>>possible, difficult, easy, etc. Thanks for your input.
>
>When development of a Windows version was finally knocked on the head last 
>year we decided to move our site to EndNote for both PCs and Macs. It has 
>proved popular with staff and students.
>
>Moving references is not difficult.  I've written detailed instructions 
>for our staff and students to move from DOS Papyrus 7.16c to EndNote 
>5.0.2, via a text editor (I've used Word).  The method improves on the 
>instructions available on the RSD and EndNote sites:
>- All fields and notecards for all reference types are included.
>- Most non-English, Western-European characters are preserved.
>- Markup for italicisation etc within a field is retained (but is not 
>converted into eg italics)
>It's been successfully road tested by a couple of research students here, 
>so I'd be happy to send it to Dave, if he wants to post it on the site.
>
>One thing you should be aware of if you have used the Papyrus reference 
>number in filing your hard copies (which has been advised against on 
>numerous occasions): these will not be convereted into the new reference 
>numbers in any other programmes, but the method described above does 
>include them as labels so that you can continue to refer to them for 
>already entered references.  This also has an impact on any documents 
>you're currently writing.
>
>You should have a look at other programmes too - it depends what your 
>needs are.
>
>Hugh Gunz and Martin Evans at Toronto has done some good work getting 
>references into Biblioscape <www.biblioscape.com>, which you might want to 
>look at.  His instructions are brief and work very easily.  I'm trying to 
>build on that and non-English characters at present for a different 
>project, but can't say when it'll bear fruit.
>
>Duncan
>
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