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Started by Dr Jim Cummins
Thu, 03 Jun 1993 00:25
Re: multiple/single editors problem in APA style
Author: Dr Jim Cummins
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 00:25
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 00:25
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Whatever you play around with, there's no substitution for actually proofreading and correcting your formatted bibliography by old-fashioned (dare I say it) reading! It's very easy to insert an "s" where it's called for, and probably a lot simpler than constructing elaborate algorithms for rare problems. Jim Cummins Murdoch University Western Australia
Re: multiple/single editors problem in APA style
Author: John G Norman
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 13:03
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 13:03
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In article <Pine.3.07.9306030813.A10976-9100000@csuvax1> Dr Jim Cummins <cummins@CSUVAX1.CSU.MURDOCH.EDU.AU> writes: >Whatever you play around with, there's no substitution for actually >proofreading and correcting your formatted bibliography by old-fashioned >(dare I say it) reading! It's very easy to insert an "s" where it's >called for, and probably a lot simpler than constructing elaborate >algorithms for rare problems. > >Jim Cummins >Murdoch University >Western Australia I disagree. The whole point of using automation with an application like EndNote is to END the tedious process of being concerned with "ed." vs. "eds." This is an ideal place for our technological slave, the computer, to do the work for us, so that our proofing can be done at a higher level. It is issues like this where EndNote most fails its users. Long ago I posted a list of useful improvements where computer formatting could save MANY hours of human attention to details that are, quite frankly, stupidly adhered to by publishers. A good example would be the considerable variety of ways of formatting page ranges (e.g., 100-1 vs. 100-01, etc.). It would be a great boon were EndNote able to observe the correct formatting of such things, as did even an inferior product such as Notebook II/Bibliography. "In the state of nature, there was no editing of `ed.' vs. `eds.'"--Rousseau "Editors of the world unite--all we have to lose is slavery to a myriad of non-orthogonal, illogical, and idiosyncratic publishing styles."--Marx and Engels "Down with mind-numbing editing of details."--Situationist graffito John G. Norman English Department Ohio State University jgn+@osu.edu
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