[Papyrus-L] Importing information into Papyrus

[John Rodgers]

Dear Ann,
    what system are you using?  XP?  and what word processor? Word?

I think it was Raisa who was able to get pasting to work in ways that I 
haven't been able to achieve.  In my hands, it appears that XP allows 
certain programs (Word, and WordPerfect) to keep control over files 
(c:\pap\cited.txt in your case) if they have opened them.  They won't let 
other programs write to them.  Not sure why you can't go the other 
direction, however.
     This is what I do:
for pasting FROM papyrus,   I have a macro which opens a NEW word 
processing document,  imports the cited.txt, copies it all to the Windows 
clipboard, then closes new document.  This returns it to the original 
document.  Then it pastes into that document.  I believe Raisa has been 
able to do Import File, and I think I got that to work to.



For going in the other direction, you can't let your OPEN word processing 
document touch the cited.txt file or it will "take ownership" (my term for 
what seems to be happening).  So:
         1. block and copy what you want to paste to Papyrus
           2.  open a New document
         3. past it there
         4. save the file AS cited.txt AS a text document
         5. close cited.txt

you can put this into a macro too.

then when you go to Papyrus just use F4 as usual.


I think Raisa's Import works because the "parent" document doesn't actually 
open the file it is importing.
   -john rodgers






At 08:27 PM 10/15/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Raisa,
>    I can't do it. The clipboard file shows up in the pap directory but 
> nothing
>happens when I paste.  Possibly this is related to the problem I am having
>getting citations to paste to the clipboard. I sent a message to the list 
>serve
>yesterday and am waiting.
>
>Quoting Raisa Deber <raisa.deber at utoronto.ca>:
>
> > >
> > This is probably blindingly obvious, but I just discovered that
> > transfers from the clipboard can indeed be two ways.  I'd had no
> > problems pasting TO the clipboard to cite in manuscripts, but hadn't
> > realized you could also paste FROM the clipboard to Papyrus. So, for
> > any of you wanting to import a bit of text into a Papyrus entry, just
> > open Notepad, paste the text in (e.g., a title, an abstract), and
> > then save as whatever text file you're using for your clipboard (I
> > use c:]\pap\cited.txt). and close the file. You can then paste it
> > into a field from within Papyrus.  You clearly wouldn't need to do
> > this  if you're doing imports with a Papyrus format, but it is very
> > handy indeed when you're updating something within a particular entry
> > (e.g. the URL for something you got from the web.)
> > Cheers - and happy new year to all.
> > Raisa
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Raisa Deber, PhD
> > Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
> > Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
> > Director, M-THAC (From Medicare to Home and Community) Research Unit
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John R. Rodgers, PhD
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