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Wm. Howarth writes:
>
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >Yes--buy a real database program. See my response to "Filing Articles." As
> databases evolve, it gets harder and harder to tolerate the
limitations of EN+/

EN+ is not meant to be a general purpose data base - its only useful
if you author articles with large numbers of references (using a
reference system rather than footnote citation -for example its
useless for legal scholars) and where the styles you use change from
journal to journal but the data base remains constant.  Trying to
program a data base to perform that function is close to impossible.

One would hope that Niles would expand EN+'s capabilities to provide for
complete data base functionality that scholars generally need - that
would not be an impossible task for Niles.  The other possibility
is to keep your material in a data base and use a report function
that exports into a forma that EN+ can easily important.  The problem
with that is that would have to backtrack and alter your reference
numbers because they would not correspond with EN+'s.

Given the number of suggestions that have appeared on this list I
suspect that Niles or one of its competitors will respond with a
product that performs traditional reference functions with significantly
better data functionality. And as a scholar who often needs to use
legal citations I would welcome a product for that market as well.


  Don Berman --

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