[Papyrus-L] new PubMed format how to handle the FAU field?

[Jan Herrmann]

Dear John,

I am mainly using Papyrus for Macintosh, but the formats issue is 
much the same. Isn't the Pubmed format available at the RSD website 
an updated one?
http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/ftp/pubmed.flb
Have you tried that?

Otherwise, I'd recommend to duplicate you existing Pubmed format and 
change the  duplicate according to your wishes. To eliminate the FAU 
lines, I have inserted a line like "F[discard]", which sorts out any 
line beginning with "F". That should be of help. It wasn't too 
complicated to understand the format code and to adapt some changes. 
Now I am importing DOIs, URLs and Adresses as well from PubMed.

Have a look here:
http://www.cetacea.de/science/papyrus/pubmed.gif

The look might be different in the DOS version, but it should be more 
or less the same.
If Dave is busy with other stuff, maybe there's another member of the 
list who is able to adapt the PapDOS formats and share it with the 
list. I could put it on our website so that everybody can download it.

Hope that helps,
Jan

>   This isn't really new- for perhaps the last six months Pubmed has 
>been adding a new field with every AU field- FAU- full author name. 
>The existing Pubmed format I'm using doesn't know how to strip these 
>out, and I'm left with only the first author.
>    I had a BASIC program to strip these out but it doesn't run under 
>XP until I reprogram it....
>'   Anybody know how to do this? I've never figured out how the 
>author function works on import.
>   -John Rodgers
>


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