Re: XYWRITE digest 2970

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

I don't know if it is still available, but the DOS version of Library
Master works very well with XyWrite, although it is not integrated
the way Ibid is.

Myron
> John M. R. Bruner wrote:
> > At 04:09 AM 8/27/2007, flash wrote:
> > > Y'all,
> > >
> > > Does anyone here have experience of End Note or another citation
> > > program?
> > Didn't XyWrite do it all? (E.G. the command DF, as I recall,
> > would dump all the footnotes to the end of the file instead of
> > their appearing on the current page.)
> We're not just talking about (generic) end notes, as opposed to
> footnotes. The application End Note, and Ibidem, and others like
> them enable one to create a database of references to be cited, and
> then cite them just by selecting the one desired. They also enable
> one to output the notes or a bibliographical listing in any of
> several "styles": e.g., commas or periods between the elements of
> the citation (author, title, series/journal title, place, date,
> publisher), heading or sentence capitalization of titles, and the
> like.
> The advantage of that is that if you're an author or an editor and
> have done your bibliography in Chicago style, and the publisher
> wants another style, you don't have to reformat everything. (It's
> also great if--as I too often was--you're editing a Festschrift or
> a collection of symposium papers, and each author used a different
> style and the publisher wants one uniform style enforced. Of
> course, you still have to try to figure out whether the work being
> cited is an article in a journal, a chapter in a book, or a
> monograph in a series, most authors being clueless about the subtle
> way of showing this by one's typography and punctuation.)
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx