[Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

[Ane Ortega]

David, when you (and others who have reported successful migration into a 
new system) talk about semaless transfer of records from one database to the 
other, I would be interested to know what happened to the notecards attached 
to your records, that is, how does the new system identify them and what 
does it do with them, how and where does it store them? This was, in fact, 
my other main query with regard to a possible migration, I'm glad you 
brought it up, thank you.

Ane
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haviland, David L" <David.L.Haviland at uth.tmc.edu>
To: "Papyrus Discussion List" <papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus


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


-----Original Message-----
From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com on behalf of Rodgers, 
John R.
Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 6:12 AM
To: Papyrus Discussion List
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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