4.0269 Indexing Software; Bibliographic Software (3/46)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 11 Jul 90 16:43:43 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0269. Wednesday, 11 Jul 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 18:52 EST (20 lines)
From: John Burt <BURT@BRANDEIS>
Subject: indexing software
(2) Date: 10 Jul 90 20:09:42 (13 lines)
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0262 Qs: Bibliographies
(3) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 09:21:25 EDT (13 lines)
From: pdk@iris.brown.edu (Paul D. Kahn)
Subject: bibliographic software
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 18:52 EST
From: John Burt <BURT@BRANDEIS>
Subject: indexing software
There is in the public domain software for making indexes from page
proofs. Essentially it is a small database program, and its chief use
is to automate the sorting and collating of entries, each record being
a single, multi-level entry. Naturally you can make analytic entries
as you please, since you are not tied to the words in the text, or even
to markers in the text. I am familiar with a program called INDEXER,
available from the CP/M user's group of the Boston Computer Society. I
expect that there must be MS-DOS versions available, and I would not be
surprised if there were C source code available from the C user's group
in Kansas. I have also just seen on MS-DOS bulletin boards public
domain bibliography software which will do what Pro/Tem's BIBLIOGRAPHY
or Scribe's Bibliography Utility will do--construct a bibliography in
any format from a database of citations, selecting from that database
only the works you cite. I haven't tried it out since I don't have an
MS-DOS machine, but I expect the program will be coming soon to bulletin
boards in your area.
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:09:42
From: David.A.Bantz@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: 4.0262 Qs: Bibliographies
Pro-Cite and EndNote are two commercial products which will maitain
bibliographic references and automatically format bibliographies
according to MLA and other style sheets. EndNote is interactive with
Word 4: you select references from your bibliography during editing,
then later use the program to automatically format both the references
and the cited references in a bibliography.
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 90 09:21:25 EDT
From: pdk@iris.brown.edu (Paul D. Kahn)
Subject: bibliographic software
I have been using ProCite for the Mac (current version is 1.4) for
several years. This is a database management system designed
specifically for managing bibliographic information and generating
citations in a variety of formats from a single database. It comes with
a dozen formats for output of citations, including MLA. The software is
available from Personal Bibliographic Software, PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor
MI 48106 (313) 996-1580. I don't know what the current price for the
software is. You might want to check with your campus computing center
first, since a number of universities have volume deals with PBS already.