[Papyrus-L] Bibtex anyone?

[Lisa Campbell]

i am still using Papyrus and would like to continue; but Web of 
Science now has a different format (authors names are listed twice now).
Is it easy to make a new import format?

At 02:20 AM 1/14/2008, you wrote:

>>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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