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Article #2470Re: Conversion from Papyrus (DOS) to End Note (MAC)
From: Sarah Davnall
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 13:00
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1993 13:00
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Hello Charles, Papyrus does not have an Export option as such. You use the standard bibliography creation option, LIST (preceeded, if the references are not numerically consecutive, by the SEARCH or GROUP options to collect the reference set together). In LIST, specify the format definition which tells Papyrus how EndNote wants the references to look. For some transfers, you would need to create an appropriate format definition yourself, but for transfer to EndNote, you can use the REFER format definition, which you will find on the Import Formats Library, IMPORT.FLB. (It's here because Papyrus expects that everyone will want to change from EndNote to Papyrus, but although it will ask you if you really want to use an "Import" format definition for output, it will allow you to do it after you have replied that you do!). You then import the refs into EndNote using its Refer style. I've not done this myself, but it was tried by a user here who wanted to change over to a MAC, and he was very satisfied with the result. It would be improper of me to attempt to promote Papyrus, a rival bibliography management package, on a list devoted to EndNote, and this message is not intended to do so. However, reading over the past months the many queries about format conversion software, it seemed to me that Papyrus' format definition capability, which is exceedingly flexible, could have been used to solve many of the problems. So, any user who has a reference format conversion requirement: IF the conversion software currently available to you cannot cope; and IF you are running on DOS or can include a DOS stage in your transfer to MAC EndNote; and IF you have access to Papyrus (eg, because your department or site has an appropriate licence); then you might like to consider using Papyrus as an intermediary between your data source and EndNote. OK, so that third IF makes things more difficult, but
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From: Sarah Davnall <ZLSIISA@CMS.MCC.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Conversion from Papyrus (DOS) to End Note (MAC)
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