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Last update: May, 6, 2004


 4.5. Input/Edit

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.

Input/Edit

Biblioscape Bookends

1  Cataloguing reference standard

2  How to recall records for editing
    1. list browsing
    2. query search
    3. while editing another record

3 Input must be preceeded by searching

Biblioscape: no Bookends: no

4 Compulsory input within certain fields

Biblioscape: no (but can set fields as required) Bookends: no (unless you configure it to work in BibTeX mode)

5 Particular edit features 
   1. copy fields and/or records
   2. symbols table
   3. term lists
   4. date stamping
   5. undo
   6. default values (session and/or permanent)
   7. validation
   8. automatic assignment of values
   9. configure edit window 
 10. other

Biblioscape:
1: no special commands; 2, 3, 4, 5
One Term table (see in Term/Entry lists).
Bookends: 1 3 5
10 : a) there is no particular "edit mode": a full record is open both for editing and display, there isn't a "save" command;
b) "Peek" command to copy data from previous or other record, from same or different field;
c) optionally replace journal abbreviation by short/full form;
d) optional autocompletion for term lists entries

6 Spellchecker

Biblioscape: yes, can define which fields are to be checked Bookends: no

7 Direct print of a record while editing it

8 Duplicate record
    1. drag-and-drop
    2. copy command
    3. clipboard (formatted: can specify style; send out)
    4. export/print on disk (also formatted; send out)

Biblioscape: no : you can have as many virtual copies of a record in different folders, but can't make a physical copy of one record, for example to slightly modify it Bookends: yes

9 Duplicates detection
    1. fixed criteria 
    2. criteria can be defined

Biblioscape:  2 (also fuzzy comparison (uses the Ratcliff/Obershelp pattern recognition) Bookends: 2

10 Editor
    1. upper/lowercase conversion
    2. cut/paste text
    3. b/e record
    4. b/e field
    5. key to delete to end-of-field

Biblioscape: yes (as global editing function) Bookends: no

11 Font editing: font, size, bold, italics, underline, super/subscript, small caps

12 Global corrections
    1. add string (b/e)
    2. locate/replace (words, case)
    3. delete entire field content
    4. move field content
    5. change record type
    6. can use wildcard

Biblioscape: 1 3 4 (here it does not have a real search/replace string function: acts on entire field; must use the Search Lookup facility + right click and Replace to change an entry, where also regular expressions can be used) Bookends: 1 2 (also any field in the records; no word, case, yes style and font) 3 4 5 6 will search for any string of text, l/r truncated (not an indexed search), no internal wildcards: m?ss



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