[Papyrus-L] Chapters

[Raisa Deber]

At 09:46 AM 2/22/2004 +1100, you wrote:

>I have a database that is sufficiently large to necessitate chapters.

I am confused here.  Is the problem the database, or the manuscript?  As 
far as I know, one doesn't split the database into chapters.  (How large is 
it?)  I assume you are using Word 2000, which should work fine with Papyrus.

>  I inadvertently hit key(s) on the keyboard and have disabled some aspect 
> of chapters.

Did you do this within Word?  Which aspect was disabled?

>It is fine with chapter one and sometimes chapter two, however after that 
>all the references are extracted but not replaced in the final document. 
>The new references are also not added to the reference compilation under List.
Check the Papyrus manual, but in general, you handle multiple chapters by 
setting up a group, and then text extracting each new chapter into the same 
group, without clearing it.  If you do that, List should work fine.  (We 
used this for a book which we just finished.)

This is sounding like it might be a Microsoft interface issue.  (I assume 
you are using the Dos version, not the Mac one.)  When it is text 
extracting, Papyrus doesn't touch the old document; it processes it to 
create a new document with the same name, but a different 
extension.  Unless you tell it otherwise, it assigns the 
extension  .new.  This in turn usually confuses Word, which works on the 
assumption that it only needs to bother about files with the extension 
.doc.  This means that if you click on the file, Windows won't know what to 
do with it, and if you are looking for the document within Word, it won't 
find it unless you specifically tell it to look for all files, not just the 
ones with .doc extensions.  Word can open it, but you have to be very 
specific.  (It is also a good idea to use short file names - another 
problem might be if you are using long file names where the first six or so 
characters are the same.  Under those circumstances, you may find that the 
short file names are replacing the earlier chapters.  Again, I'd need more 
details, but the first thing I'd do is work on copies with short and unique 
file names.

This doesn't sound like a Papyrus problem, and so I'm not surprised that 
reinstalling doesn't make a difference.
Let me know if this helps.
Raisa Deber

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>I have deleted papyrus and reinstalled with no change; and have run it on 
>both Word 2000 and Word XP with no difference.

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