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I know this is not of interest to everyone here, but recently there has
been some discussion on the Nisus mailing list about Endnote and Nisus.
Aside from Niles & Ass. and Nisus users, perhaps this will interest users
of other word processors which are not fully supported. Aside from the
usual complaints, Nisus users possibly interested in getting Endnote want
to know what kind of support Endnote provides for Nisus. A number are
puzzled as to what N&A's advertised support for Nisus actually means.

I thought I would forward this one message (actually from someone who does
not use Endnote):

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(Since N&A's) advertized 'support' for Nisus is severely lacking, maybe a case
could be made for them to clarify their advertising or stop advertising
non-existent 'support'?  Basically, N&A is currently benefiting from some
(small but finite) sales from Nisus users expecting the product to 'work'
with nisus (I read their press release and they do claim Nisus support).  I
know I'd be annoyed if it turned out to be very lame, considering EndNote
is not exactly free.
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Aside from the ethical concerns about clarity in advertising, there is a
practical point: after purchasing Endnote Plus 1.3 last year (which touted
EN+ support for Nisus--see page 4, "New Word Processor Compatibility"), I
had to redo 150 footnotes when I found out that EN+ could _not_ format
Nisus documents when the citations were in the footnote window. Sure,
perhaps I could have found the one sentence note on page 208 in Appendix B
of EN+ _1.2_ manual about how EN ignores footnotes in all word processors
except Microsoft Word, and remained skeptical about the claim for support
for Nisus made in the upgrade notes to 1.3. But I believed what I read....

I hope this does not happen to anyone else. I have not seen the most recent
N&A press release. But if it touts EN support for Nisus, I think Niles
should seriously reconsider what kinds of claims they make about what I
still think (despite the limitations) is a very good product.


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Peter Weil                         plweil@students.wisc.edu
Political Science Department        pweil@polisci.wisc.edu
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
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