[Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

[Haviland, David L]

Begrudgingly, I eventually drifted from Papyrus when I simply could not get it working under XP very well.  The new versions of Word and Wordperfect were not compatible with the last version of Papyrus.  I knew from prior experience, before I found Papyrus, that Endnote was *not* on the "A" list of choices.  Primarily, because in the early 90's when I tried Endnote, they were not compatible with Wordperfect and had no plans to be.  I eventually settled on Reference Manager and for the most part I have been pretty happy with it.   Transferring my PAP data base to RM was seamless.  My only bone of contention with RM is that RM tries to get you to run your searches through its engine rather than my running PubMed and importing the text format of the references I want.   I do it both ways.   I've found RM compatible with Word and Wordperfect and I consider it an "acceptable" alternative.

David Haviland
UT-Houston 


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From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com on behalf of Rodgers, John R.
Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 6:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus
 
Richard's comments point up a difficulty for those of us who co-author or otherwise shared e-texts.  This is the same problem that made me give up WordPerfect- no one else in my circle uses it.  Searching using Endnote is a problem for me because I have a very large database, but it is no problem
for the students I teach who for the most part have small databases.  Similarly, when I co-author I need to use a common reference managing program.  I imagine that many of those who have managed to hang on to using Papyrus are sole authors.?
  

John R. Rodgers, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-3903
fax: 713-798-3700



Personally I use Emacs both for writing the documents and for 
manipulating the BibTeX files but there are Java based programs that 
will do it.

Of course, it does require learning LaTeX, but its much better than 
using Word anyway, IMHO

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Richard Fieldsend
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