guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow) (05/28/91)
In comp.sys.mac.apps I wrote: ----------------------------- The combination of disgust over Microsofts inability to repair obvious bugs and omissions in Word 4.0A to D and their secret upgrades in combination of a great offer (c$ 125.00) to purchase Nissus 3.05 persuaded me to switch to Nissus. But this raises the question: What is the best way to use EndNote Plus with Nissus 3.05? Please email any responses to me and I will post a summary of them. ------------------------------ I reveived essentially two replies. The first one announces good news for the future: ------------------------------ We are testing a version of EndNote that supports file translation through XTND, and Paragon is working on their end of things. Ours will be out in July -- if you have gotten any mail from us then you are a registered users and we will notify you. I don't know when the Nisus upgrade will come out, but now that XTND is Apple standard, it should be soon. Call them. Avi, Technical Support Avi Rappoport 2000 Hearst, Berkeley, CA 94709 nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us, 415-649-8176 Niles.Assoc on AppleLink fax:415-649-8179 ------------------------------- The other message describes how to work around the probelm: ------------------------------- I use this same combination. The way I work it depends on the number of references I have; If just a few, I use the EndNote DA to copy formatted, and just paste the references in (I put my own citations in, such as the following: "... the earth is flat [bozo86]. ..." Since I've always formatted the bibliography by hand anyway, even when I used Word, I don't find it much of a loss that EndNote doesn't understand Nisus formats. If I had hundreds of references, say for a thesis, this would be too tedious. I think the following would work: Use EndNote to paste the citations in, and use a special Nisus style (say blue color); also type in the citation as you want it to appear in the final output (without the special style). So you end up with: "... the earth is flat[#27][bozo86]. When ready, make a text copy of your paper, read it with Endnote. Open the result (which contains the ccorrectly formatted bibliography) and paste it into your original paper. It would help to have a defined Nisus bibliography style to format this. The last step is to find and delete all text with the special style. Naturally we all hope EndNote eventually supports Nisus properly, but I'm not gonna hold my breath. Good luck! -Wayne <pollock@screamer.csee.usf.edu> --------------------------------------- Thanks to Wayne and Avi for these replies. The longer I have thought about this myself the more it appears that two appropriate macros should be able to solve part of the problem. One macro that copies the refernces into a text document including it's own references and one that copies them back once they have been processed with Endnote. The latter would also convert appropriate formatting codes inserted through Endnote styles. -- Andreas J. Guelzow <guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Department of Mathematics & Astronomy University of Manitoba