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From: amaury@rel.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Endnote and Nisus
Keywords: nisus, endnote
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.150127.12116@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 15:01:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.211059.624@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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In article <1991Jun25.211059.624@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
>Hi.
>        Does anyone out in netland know if the Endnote people are coming
>(have come?) out with a version that will read Nisus files?  I've got
>Endnote and Word, and I'm thinking of buying Nisus to write my thesis- but
>I'm undecided since I like the ability to track my references in Word with
>Endnote.  Any help/suggestions?  On a related note, since I have Word,
>can anyone give me more info on Nisus and whether or not it is worth
switching?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>John Boswell
>John.Boswell@Dartmouth.edu
>

 I just posted a note about it. I have EndNote Plus and I'm learning how to use
Nisus. I wrote a macro scheme for Nisus that would make it work with EndNote,
but the fellow in the Nisus tech. support that I talked to was not very
helpful. In any case you can always save the Nisus doc. in Word format and use
EndNote to format it, specially if you are referring by Author/Date it would
works fine. 

 The way around (writing a Nisus macro) take advantage of the Nisus plain file
capability, i.e. make a second file which would store just the EndNote
cross-references then format it with EndNote as a plain text file. If you try
to format your original Nisus file EndNote will destroy its format. Later the
macro should simply transfer the cross-references between the plain text file
into the final file. The idea is simple and I hope someone could help me to
implement it.
By the way Nisus is an excellent program and I hope I can work around those
little problems.

amaury@rel.mit.edu

amaury@rel.mit.edu