The overstriked grid's items have not been taken into account for the purposes of this shorter evaluation: it does not imply at all that the package cannot perform the relevant function.
The numbering and the content are the same as the full version of the evaluation grid.
10 FL-Formatting language to define output styles | ||||
Bookends | ||||
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Bookends: made up of: coded field names -can actually use more fields than are available for input-, text strings, punctuation, style (italics etc.), special codes (tab, return, record number ...) | ||||
10.1 Selection
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Bookends: no (only first name and qualifications in personal names; the four digits year in the date field for output purposes) | ||||
10.2 Add text
2. regardless of field presence 3. depending on field presence 4. depending on field content | ||||
Bookends: yes | ||||
10.3 Distinguishes among occurrences of a repeatable field:
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Bookends: 2 3 as far as names are concerned for output, punctuation, purposes | ||||
10.4 Produces tagged format output --apart from export routines | ||||
Bookends: yes (but cannot output keywords each tagged on a different line) | ||||
10.5 Displays RT (reference type) | ||||
Bookends: yes | ||||
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Bookends: | ||||
10.7 Offers conditional commands (IF ... THEN ...) | ||||
Bookends: no (implied in built-in options to be selected) | ||||
10.8 Upper/lowercase conversion | ||||
Bookends: can force sentence case, title case, all CAPS | ||||
10.9 Look-up tables to expand acronyms, abbreviations, replace text | ||||
Bookends: Journal Glossaries can replace abbreviation while entering data, short/full form when outputting | ||||
10.10 Contextual Record Preview | ||||
Bookends: yes | ||||
1. text lists can be modified 2. new lists can be added (new language) 3. text can be present in various fields | ||||
Bookends: | ||||
10.12 Checks format syntax |
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Bookends: no | ||||
10.13 Level of difficulty of the formatting language | ||||
Bookends: rich, not complicated, no programming skills required |