 |
|
List Archives >
Reference Manager List Archive >
Archive by date >
This Month By Date >
This Month By Topic
BEWARE THE REFMAN FRAMESHIFT
| BEWARE THE REFMAN FRAMESHIFT |
|
Author: Dr Richard Mailman
Posted: Mon, 17 Nov 2005 16:15:00 -0800
|
BEWARE THE REFMAN FRAMESHIFT re: <RefMan> Weird problem with Refman 11
and word 2003 SP2Settings for append letter to year...
Alert for all of you who use Edit Citations to add or remove references.
I call this the "frameshift" problem [a genetic metaphor). It happened
regularly with RM11.0.0 (see below), and whereas RM11.0.1 seems to
decrease but as I found out tragically working on a grant last week, it
can still occur.
As I noted, the danger is related to the "Edit Citation(s)" button on
the toolbar.
- I have never had a problem using this to exclude author or year, or
add prefixs and suffixs.
- The problem arises using it to "Insert" or "Remove" citations. It
works fine most of the time, but will (with regularity) "do the
frameshift". What happens is that all of your references are shifted up,
for example, to incorrect positions in the text . Once this occurs,
there is no fix other than to go back to (or compare with) an earlier
version or manually reinsert everything. Indeed, we now regularly save
sequential versions of important documents as we prepare them to be able
to recover from this with moderate grace.
Richard B. Mailman, Ph.D.
"richard_mailman"
Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Neurology, and Medicinal
Chemistry 7001C NC Neurosciences Hospital University of North Carolina
School of Medicine Chapel Hill NC 27599-7160 USA Voice 919.966.2484; FAX
919-966-9604; Mobile 919.260.7976
-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster"
"mailto:listmaster"
On Behalf Of "Dr.Richard.Mailma"@med.unc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:40 PM
To: "RIS-List"
Subject: RE: <RefMan> Weird problem with Refman 11 and word 2003 SP2
This was a bug in Refman that the new patch (11.0.1) fixes -- install it
NOW.
Richard B. Mailman, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Neurology, and Medicinal
Chemistry CB#7160, 7001C NC Neurosciences Hospital University of North
Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill NC 27599-7160 USA
"richard_mailman" Voice 919.966.2484; FAX 919-966-9604; Mobile
919.260.7976
-----Original Message-----
From: "listmaster"
"mailto:listmaster"
On Behalf Of "JT[jame"@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 7:20 PM
To: "RIS-List"
Subject: <RefMan> Weird problem with Refman 11 and word 2003 SP2
Hi,
I faced a weird problem with Refman 11 and word 2003 SP2. I have written
a paper of 98 citations. After moving a paragraph (it contains several
citations also) to later section, my citations suddenly got messed up
orderly. Starting from that shifted paragraph, my citations are
physically moved forward.
Example,
original is XXXX [33;34] YYYY [50] ZZZZZZ [70]
now is XXXX [50] YYYY [70] ZZZZZZ
I have resolved it manually, but hope to avoid this terrible hardship
again.
I recalled removing some citations from that shifted paragraphs , but
unsure what I did wrongly.
Thanks
James
|
Previous by date: RE: SIMPLE PROBLEM, Linda K
Next by date: import filters, Dr CM FitzGerald
Previous thread: Weird problem with Refman 11 and word 2003 SP2, JT
Next thread: import filters, Dr CM FitzGerald
|
|
|
RSS Feeds
collection
