Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!uflorida!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!cs.ucla.edu!stiber From: stiber@cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 90 01:34:29 GMT References: <81032@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Organization: UCLA Machine Perception Laboratory Lines: 29 In-reply-to: tj@peirce.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 30 May 90 22:59:41 GMT There is a shareware package called "WordRef", which does pretty much what you want. It consists of a Hypercard stack, a browser DA, and an application. The stack is used to maintain bibliographies, which can be exported to BibTeX format, if you like. The DA allows one to scan through a bibliography while using Word. The application does the real work --- it scans through (possibly multiple) Word files (saved with "Fast Save" off) and builds auxilliary files for cross-references, citations, numbered figures, titles, tables, etc. Then, you use the Word mail-merge command to produce the final product. One catch is that it is compatible with Word 3.x, not 4.x. Not too great a loss for me, since I consider Word 4 to be a dog. I have been investigating FullWrite Professional lately. It looks very good, and does almost everything one might want, except that its bibliography capabilities are pathetic. Almost no flexibility in citation format, and actual entries would have to be hand-reformatted (not to mention that you have to manually delete or enter them in). Also, you'd have to use Expressionist or something for equations (then again, Word's equations are kinda ugly, anyway). I still haven't figured out if its possible to have a table of contents, list of figures, etc, or if everything would just go into the table of contents. However, there have been consistent rumors about an upgrade, and one can only hope that FullWrite will be the first WYSIWYG program to give us everything we need... -- Michael Stiber stiber@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Computer Science Dept. ...{ucbvax,ihpn4}!ucla-cs!stiber Machine Perception Laboratory 3564 Boelter Hall,Los Angeles, CA 90024