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>I think guidelines for both the Styles and the Journal abbreviations
>are a good idea.  I also don't feel 100% confident that my Styles are
>correct, but I assume that if errors are found either by an Endnote
>user or by a journal editor, the discoverer of the error will post
>the correction.

>For journal abbreviations, I wonder how many different
>conventions there are on the "correct" abreviations.  For example,
>if I recall correctly, the abbreviations used by Nature are different
>from those used by Cell.
>Does anyone know if this is correct, and
>if so, what the basis is for deciding how to abbreviate journal names?

There are 4 levels of abbreviations available, so there can be 4 different
abbrviations. It's hard to know how to specify any the details except, make
the fullest abbreviation first, and put the most abbreviated last.

>A second area in which conventions should be established is the format
>for posting information at magic.ucsb.edu.  Posting each style individually
>would allow easy updating for corrections, and eliminate downloading
>things you don't need.  But Styles are very small files, especially
>when compressed, and maybe it's easier to download them all in one
>transfer.

I'm voting for individual files, with a readme file.   If a set of styles
goes goes with a preferences file, then combine them into one set:
Readme.txt, styles, preferences, journals, other info.

>A similar question concerns compression.  Should we (Mac users) send
>Stuffed or Compacted and binhexed files, and should they be self-extracting?
>I favor not self-extracting, with the note describing the archiving and
>retrieval procedures telling where on Internet tools such as Stuffit
>Expander or Compactor may be found.

Please, no self extracting code. I've put the Mac tools needed on magic.ucsb.edu
I'll try to find the PKzip.exe, and Sit.exe code and put it on magic.

Machine: Prefered compression,  filename        ; Included files
PC: Pkzip,                      filename.zip; Readme.txt, style.sty
PC2: Pkzip, then uuencode,      filename.uu; Readme.txt, style.sty
Mac: compact pro then binhex    filename.hqx; Readme.txt, style.sty

I'll check the files, and translate to the other machines format.

>It seems I recall that Mac and IBM versions of Enote can directly use
>the same libraries.  Is this also true for Styles?
Yup.

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