[Papyrus-L] Bibtex anyone?

[Dave Goldman]

>What I really want is to transfer my Papyrus data into a format

>that will be processed by a Linux/*nix utility eg Kbibtex.


The Macintosh version of Papyrus includes import and export formats for BibTeX.

For the DOS version of Papyrus, we provided a BibTeX import format, 
for transferring references from BibTeX to Papyrus. That import 
format is still available on our website, at 
<http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/Formats7.html>.

For transferring from Papyrus to BibTeX, you'll need to create an 
appropriate Papyrus export format. You might use our BibTeX import 
format as a starting point, but bear in mind that an output format 
will be much simpler than the import format, as it won't need to 
worry about multiple places that various bits of information may or 
may not show up.

Since you'll be creating your own output format, you can include 
whichever Papyrus fields you desire (including Comments and 
Abstract), with whatever tags you like. But as Denis Brown has 
pointed out, Papyrus notecards don't have an equivalent in most other 
bibliographic databases.

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    Dave Goldman (dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com)

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