🚀 go-pugleaf

The problem with the internal numbering system in endnote is that it gets
lost when a datqbase is written out (as say refer format), modified in some
way and then read back in again.  It would be nice if endnote could export
its internal numbering as a refer field and then use this to restore the
original internal numbering when read back in again.

Why would anyone want to export and reimport an endnote datebase?  Easy:
adding a personal index number (to refer say to filed hard copies of
articles) to the label field of a large endnote library is very laborious
if done within endnote, however can be done in seconds with fortran
programs or perl scripts working on refer format files.  We do this for a
several master databases used by our whole department which act as indexes
for filing cabinets of articles, where the internal endnote number doesn't
matter, but it would be nice to be able to label personal EN databases and
maintain the internal numbering.  Another reason to export to refer format
is to search for duplicates, since the algorthm used inside EN is very weak
and fails to spot anything other than almost exact duplicates.

I like endnote too, but it does have its weaknesses...

Tim Hubbard

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Dr Tim Hubbard                                    email: th@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Centre for Protein Engineering (CPE)                Tel: 0223 402131
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