[Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

[Denis Brown]

At 02:42 AM 12/04/2007, Rodgers, John R. wrote:

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>I've migrated to Endnote very reluctantly.  I did it to interface with 

>co-authors who use it, and because I needed to know it well enough to 

>teach using it to graduate students.

>    You can use keywords but they do not have the wonderful feature of 

> Papyrus that they are indexed separately, and can be edited as universal 

> keywords.  Endnote has a "fill-in" feature that will search its own 

> working list for keywords that start with the same letters, but you 

> cannot do extremely valuable tasks such as merging keywords, or perform a 

> global delete.

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>     Endnote is very slow in searching compared to Papyrus (probably 

> because it doesn't index) and its Boolean capabilities are crude at best 

> and sometimes actually fail inexplicably.

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>    What really should happen in all this is that someone should take 

> David's basic engine and covert it to Windows or Java.  I suspect his 

> indexing feature is the genius kernel that drives most of we lose when we 

> go to another package, and all we gain are those necessary cosmetic 

> touches.  I'd go back to Papyrus in a flash. I do understand that the 

> market forces are difficult.



Yes we too reluctantly had to move, what with OS "upgrades" and a stern 
insistence that the rest of my institution was using EndNote.   Even so, I 
do have some users here who use other than EndNote, notably Reference 
manager.   Each seems to have strengths and weaknesses.

I gently suggested open sourcing Papyrus quite some time ago because that 
would have opened it to possibly wider use - platforms like Java, Windows 
or Linux (read MAC OS-X as well) but I comprehend Dave's reluctance to do so.

Denis