[Papyrus-L] help with import

[Dave Goldman]

At 2:40 PM -0500 12/16/08, Raisa Deber wrote:

>We're still using Papyrus as our database, but trying to write 

>output formats to allow people to do text extractions.  Since we 

>have filed everything by the Papyrus number (and "everything" is 

>currently > 19,000 entries!) we want to export the Papyrus number. 

>Bib Tex wants the first part of the export to be the reference type. 

>We can't seem to find a field for the Papyrus number to allow us to 

>export it anywhere other than the beginning.  Any thoughts other 

>than writing post-processors?


You're right -- this is one of the limitations in Papyrus 7.0 that we 
fixed in Papyrus 8.0 (the Mac version).

For Papyrus 7.0, you're stuck with a post-processor.

Unless, hmm, you want to output all of your Articles in one batch, 
all of your Books in a second batch, etc...

You could make separate Groups according to Reference Type. Then you 
could tweak the output format before exporting each Group. In the 
Indentation/Numbering part of the format, specify an appearance of 
"Other". Then:

Punctuation preceding the number: "ARTICLE|NUMBER="
Punctuation following the number: |
Justify the Number left or right: Left
 From column #1
Thru column #1
Text on first line starts in column #2
Subsequent lines (of each paragraph) start in column #3

Your whole output file will have an extra space of indentation on 
each line, but that's easy to fix afterwards.

-- 
    Dave Goldman (dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com)

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