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Re: Wish list - thesaurus function

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From: Ejan Mackaay
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 18:15
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>I must agree with Dr. Gehle.  Before I started using Endnote+, I tried
>using FileMaker for a database.  There, you could generate an index field
>to be used for keywords which could then be pasted into your keywords field.
>The biggest problem was that FileMaker broke keywords longer than one word
>into individual words, most of which no longer made sense.  Initially I liked
>this index field, since it allows !consistent! entry of keywords from
>session to session.  A similar function in EndNote (without breaking up
>the keywords, of course) would be fantastic!
>
>Bob Freeman
>Harvard Graduate Committee on Virology
>Boston, MA

I do wish to be taken to recommend a return to Filemaker for bibliography,
but to the program's credit, it must be said that it is quite possible to
stop it from breaking up expressions: by typing hard spaces (option+space
or cmd+space) between the individual terms.

EJAN MACKAAY
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