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A comment on the recent exchange about importing references into EndNote
from a manually formatted (i.e. typed) bibliography:

I don't think any current bibliography software does this right now, but
they will eventually, and the first one that does is going to enjoy a huge
advantage over its competitors.

Imagine. You've got a thesis on disk with 30 pages of references laborously
typed and proofed on some word processor. You go into EndNote and create a
style format that corresponds to the one used in the document. Then you
have EndNote translate the reference list into your database (with tagged
fields) by using the style as a template.

How about this. You copy a review article from your favorite journal, take
it home and run it through the scanner. Do OCR on the picture and then have
EndNote import the contents of the resulting text file into your database
using the corresponding journal style (which you already have cause you've
publish there yourself).

It's just the reverse of what EndNote does already, isn't it?!?! Why should
it be so hard?

Paul Tratnyek
Oregon Graduate Institute