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Everybody is =, but some are more = than others
Author: Hanno KOLBE    Posted: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:35:59 +0200
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:35:59 +0200 Reply-To: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List Sender: PROCITE The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List From: Hanno KOLBE Subject: Everybody is =, but some are more = than others MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Marcio (but it may be interesting for the others, too...) I had the problem that parentheses in ProCite Ver.4.03, i.e. " ( " and " ) " in fields #16 and #17, were not printed out at all in any output style. The solution? The "settings" of those fields do not allow output of parenthesis. HOWEVER, placing an " = " sign at the beginning of the field overrides these settings and any other "field formatting" and parantheses are printed out as they should (holds for any of the 45 fields; of course in the output the "=" sign does not appear). This may be the reason why the "=" sign (Marcios bug 13, March 24, 2000) perturbs the formating of the title. Sincerely Hanno V.J.Kolbe ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.rer.nat. Hanno V.J.Kolbe TRANSGENE SA - Vectorology & BioChemistry - 11, rue de Molsheim, F-67082 Strasbourg/France Tel. 33 (0)3.88.27.91.00 or Tel. 33 (0)3.88.27.91.09 (direct) Fax 33 (0)3.88.22.58.07; http://www.transgene.fr/ (work), (home) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Everybody is =, but some are more = than others
Author: Marcio Redondo    Posted: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:24:42 +0100
Subject: Re: Everybody is =, but some are more = than others MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Hanno Thanks for your posting. You are right in your analysis. Somehow the "=" sign interferes with the text scanning by Procite. The interesting thing is that anything after "=" in a title is put between quotation marks and preceded by the "/ft" switch. Regards, Marcio Hanno KOLBE wrote <snip> > The "settings" of those fields do not allow output of parenthesis. > HOWEVER, placing an " = " sign at the beginning of the field overrides > these settings and any other "field formatting" and parantheses are > printed out as they should (holds for any of the 45 fields; of course in > the output the "=" sign does not appear). > This may be the reason why the "=" sign (Marcios bug 13, March 24, 2000) > perturbs the formating of the title.

Re: Everybody is =, but some are more = than others
Author: Thomas R Williams    Posted: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:25:28 -0500
Subject: Re: Everybody is =, but some are more = than others In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Marcio: I think this is an interesting interference caused by a very useful utility in ProCite. When entering names in the name fields, it is necessary to identify suffices, for example, Jr., III, Esq., Third Earle of Rosse, etc. One cannot simply attach these to the last name or they become a part of every citation, which is awkward. So ProCite allows the entry to include the "=" sign to stipulate that the material immediately following the "=" sign is the suffix. Thus, William Parsons, Third Earl of Rosse is entered Parsons, William = Third Earl of Rosse and will print out correctly in a variety of formats. But of course that is also the function of the /ft switch in citations and that is apparently why that switch then shows up in your citation.. Hope this makes sense. It sounds like the ???? approach, with global editing to replace the ???? with = after the citations are printed to a file, would be a good work around until the programmers find a longer term remedy. There are not many titles that contain mathematical symbols like "=" so I doubt that this will get a high priority. Thanks to Hanno for posting an interesting trick on the use of "=" in another way. Tom Williams. At 10:24 AM 04/07/2000 +0100, you wrote: >Dear Hanno > >Thanks for your posting. You are right in your analysis. >Somehow the "=" sign interferes with the text scanning by >Procite. The interesting thing is that anything after "=" in >a title is put between quotation marks and preceded by the >"/ft" switch. > >Regards, > >Marcio > > >Hanno KOLBE wrote > ><snip> > >> The "settings" of those fields do not allow output of parenthesis. >> HOWEVER, placing an " = " sign at the beginning of the field overrides >> these settings and any other "field formatting" and parantheses are >> printed out as they should (holds for any of the 45 fields; of course in >> the output the "=" sign does not appear). >> This may be the reason why the "=" sign (Marcios bug 13, March 24, 2000) >> perturbs the formating of the title. > >

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