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Last update: May, 6, 2004


 4.9. Output

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.

Output and Print (apart from Manuscript formatting)

1 Send output to printer, file, monitor

Biblioscape: yes (file first via clipboard) Bookends: 1 2 3

2 Real bibliography formatting software: offers large quantity of -ready and modifiable- styles for citing, can create new

Biblioscape: yes Bookends: yes

3 Structure of system display
   1. short record list
   2. one formatted record at the time
   3. more formatted records

Biblioscape: 1, 2 Bookends: one full record open at the time, in both edit and browse/display mode; through the full record one can activate 1

4 Report generator

Biblioscape: yes (Report Module comes with a number of built-in forms, can customize and create new ones, either in command mode or via SQL) Bookends: yes

5 "Subject list", i.e. an indexed report with sorted headings from record content
    1. one level
    2. more levels
    3. headings only
    4. from more than one field at once

Biblioscape: 1 3 ; also via dedicated Report function: built-in layout for: sort grouped by author, journal, keywword, year, folder (to customize Reports must use SQL commands) Bookends: no

6 Output file format
   1. RTF
   2. MS-Word
   3. Corel-WP
   4. TXT
   5. HTML
   6. other

Biblioscape: 1 (2 via clipboard) 5 (links are not active) (either export or save as after having copied to the clipboard) Bookends: one format selected in the Preferences

might be Corel-WordPerfect, basic HTML (no dynamic links), TXT, it defaults to RTF if your word processor is Word, Nisus Writer, or another wp Bookends doesn't know about



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