Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!gauche!jnelson From: jnelson@gauche.enet.dec.com (Jeff E. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing Summary: Try WordRef in conjunction with Microsoft Word Message-ID: <12080@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 31 May 90 14:05:03 GMT References: <81032@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: jnelson@gauche.enet.dec.com (Jeff E. Nelson) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 94 > - Automatic numbering of sections, lists, and figures. > - References to other parts of the document. > - Bibliographies in various formats. > - Support for environments. The first three out of four features are found in a shareware application and Hypercard stack collectively referred to as WordRef. WordRef works in conjunction with Microsoft Word, so--because you already have Word--I expect you'll want to give WordRef a try. You'll find it available for anonymous ftp at sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the files /info-mac/app/word-ref-13-part1.hqx and /info-mac/app/word-ref-13-part2.hqx. Here's the Introduction section from the user's guide which explains its capabilities. Note: I made some slight editing changes to correct characters which don't translate well from the Macintosh character set to the ASCII character set. ------------------------------------------- WordRef User's Guide version 1.3 16 December 1989 Copyright 1989 Mark H. Nodine 1. Introduction WordRef is an application which allows users of Microsoft Word to define and refer to cross-references and to have citations and bibliographies automatically generated. This is accomplished via the Print Merge facility of Microsoft Word: the cross-references and citations are print merge variables (enclosed in << and >>) which the WordRef application scans and provides values to. WordRef is being distributed under the ShareWare system. If you find it useful, the price is $25, which should be sent to: Mark Nodine 70 Mountain Avenue Riverside, RI 02915-5016 Permission is granted to copy and distribute WordRef, provided that the complete package (application, stack, desk accessory, and document) is kept together, and that the package not be sold commercially for more than the reasonable cost for the distribution medium. Bug reports or suggestions can be mailed to the above address or sent via electronic mail to "man@cs.brown.edu". There have been at least two earlier applications released which use the Print Merge facility of Microsoft Word for similar purposes. I have opted to write my own because neither one of these (Scholar's Aid and Xref) were general enough to suit my needs. I have tried to make this application as flexible as possible so that it can accommodate virtually any bibliographic style or cross-referencing needs. Some of the features of WordRef are o No limit on the number of counters (variables) used for cross-references. o Variables can be combined in general arithmetic expressions. o Increment operators are included for convenience. o Variables can have strings interspersed with numbers. o Can scan Word files directly (if Fast Save is off). o There can be any number of Word files or bibliography files in a single manuscript. o The bibliography files are kept in the ever popular BibTEX format. o A HyperCard stack is provided for maintaining the bibliography files. o An additional field is provided for each card for free-form comments, keywords, etc. o Several different citation styles are provided to go at the point of reference. o A user-definable style sheet is used for formatting the bibliography entries. If you have used an earlier version of WordRef, you will be interested in section 7 of this document which is entitled "Release Notes". Many thanks are due to Herb Barad who developed the stack on which the WordRef stack was based and kindly gave permission to use it as my starting point. Thanks are also due to Sven Axelsson who substantially reworked the user interface of the WordRef stack during testing. ------------------------------------------- I've experimented with an earlier version of WordRef (mostly playing with the Hypercard stack to manipulate bibliography entries), and I've found that it works extremely well. I highly recommend it! -Jeff E. Nelson -Digital Equipment Corporation -Internet: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com -Affiliation given for identification purposes only