qrs@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Quabidur R. Safi) (07/04/89)
Hello Net: ( I have never done this before, so bear with me ) Does anybody have experience with using Pro-Cite ? I believe a firm called PBS Ann Arbor, MI produces it. The program allows you to format and organize journal references and citations, it also comes with many helpful things like punctuation files etc., I thought it was a God send. But there was a problem (serious). It allows you to index your citations or references in various ways; this is its main function I would assume. But it doesn't work that way if the result of your indexing is larger than 32K; the text window won't handle more than that and the wonderful people at PBS haven't added the FEATURE of allowing you to actually SAVE your indexed work. You can send it directly to the printer but you can't save it was a file. I know that you can have it saved on disk (cmd f) instead of printing but I don't want to spend hours cutting PScript stuff. Any help,prayers,suggestions would be very helpful. Thank you for your time. -quabid \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Do Students Need Disclaimers Too ? ///////////////////////// qrs@eleazar.dartmouth.edu quabid@d1.dartmouth.edu quabid@northstar.dartmouth.edu \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////////////
sticklen@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen) (07/05/89)
in article <14179@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, qrs@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Quabidur R. Safi) says: > Xref: cps3xx comp.sys.mac:36166 comp.databases:3028 sci.research:1054 > > ... > and the wonderful people at PBS haven't added the FEATURE of allowing you to > actually SAVE your indexed work. > You can send it directly to the printer but you > can't save it was a file. I know that you can have it saved on disk (cmd f) > instead of printing but I don't want to spend hours cutting PScript stuff. i have a hard time knowing what Quabidur is talking about. when you tell procite to make a bib from selected items in the db, it creates a window on screen that has the formatted bib in it. you can save the material in that screen any place you want to. maybe i didn't get the point of the question. by the way, i think pro-cite is the best thing since sliced bread. its just the right sized thing for the typical academic research group. (like mine that has 2 faculty and about 10 grad students). ---jon--- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Sticklen Artificial Intelligence/Knoweldge Based Systems Group Computer Science Department Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 517-353-3711 -------------------------------------------------------------
qrs@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Quabidur R. Safi) (07/05/89)
In Article >>34241 (4 more) in comp.sys.mac: sticklen@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen) Message-ID: <3642@cps3xx.UUCP> says >i have a hard time knowing what Quabidur is talking about. when you >tell procite to make a bib from selected items in the db, it creates a >window on screen that has the formatted bib in it. sorry about that. The bib ( bibliography ) in the window has a 32K limit, i.e. if your indexed formatted bibliography reaches more than 32K it stops at that limit and does not let you get at the rest of the bibliography. For most purposes 32K might be fine but we are doing a bibliography that might be 50K+ >you can save the material in that screen any place you want to Yes it does let you save whatever is in the window but the window only holds 32K, it doesn't show you the rest if your work happens to be larger than that. Say your bibliography is 50K. You have it formatted and indexed and Pro-Cite puts it into the window, but it will only put the first 32K into the window, what about the rest ? The people at PBS say that the only thing to do then is print it. Cobsidering that word processors selling for under $100 don't have this 32k limit, it's inexcusable for such a pricy package to have this terminal handicap. Quabid.