[Papyrus-L] Bibtex anyone?

[Trent & Anne Tschirgi]

For me, it's a trial and error process--

You can start with an import format that mostly works (or somewhat 
works!), and then keep adjusting it until it pulls in the references on 
your current batch of citations.

Of course, the next batch you try will have at least one citation that 
doesn't go in quite right, so you adjust again (or correct it manually)...

--Trent T.

Lisa Campbell wrote:

> 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.

>>

>> -- 

>> Dave Goldman (dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com)

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