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In article <93Sep15.123118pdt.14461-3@well.sf.ca.us> Avi Rappoport <nilesinc@WELL.SF.CA.US> writes:
>>Another helpful thing would be if one could also keep
>>the clipboard open, and have it automatically show
>>the formatted contents. I would sometimes rather read
>>the human-readable bibliography form of a reference,
>>rather than the database-oriented list of fields.
>
>You can almost [<--] do this now.  Just keep the clipboard window open and choose
>Copy Formatted on any record you would like to see.  It will replace the
>clipboard contents with the selected records, formatted according to the
>style on the styles menu.  This works on both the Mac and DOS
>programs.Yours,
>

Almost!  Almost!

I crave arrowing down my bibliography and seeing formatted references!

This would be highly analogous to flipping through ones index cards, which
would very likely to have a more human-readable first line, instead of
just a list of fields in an order that in convenient for the software.

I think a good human factors engineer would say: "Why do you have your
users press CTRL K EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY MOVE DOWN A RECORD?  How
inefficient. You should have an option called "Update clipboard" that
keeps the information there tied to a formatted version of the current
record."

This would also be a superb way to quickly shift around in a database,
verifying that a new style works well on a variety of different records.

jgn+@osu.edu