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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: hard copy of posted notes in fullwrite
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Date: 24 Feb 89 05:30:21 GMT
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>In article <20806@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes:
>>Is there any way to get a hard copy of all the posted notes associated
>>with a document (preferably with page and line number references) in
>>fullwrite?  
>
In article <7102@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>I didn't think so, and checked the manuals last night.  Nope.

Well.... you don't expect the manuals to tell you everything, do you?
In the case of fullwrite, the manuals are not very informative, they
just echo the menu structure of the program (like many other manuals).

Some kinds of notes are assembled and printed out together (endnotes,
bibliography), so it seemed reasonable there might be tools to do so
for other kinds of notes.  Since the browse menu allows you to leaf
through all notes of a certain type, that is one place it might be
good to include a reporting function of some sort, or some way that
some has figured out of getting some sort of hard copy out of browse.

Thanks to John R. Gersh, who reported that save as text appends all
notes, one kind at a time, at the end of the document, grouped
according to footnotes, references, sidebars, endnotes, etc.  [This
technique does not use browse, but it works.]  However, the posted
notes lose their labels -- they don't point to what part of the text
they are attached to.  So there are no page and line number
references.  I wonder if anyone knows how to produce them?  I don't
think you can get them by including a citation because citations in
the "save as text" versions end up as just a few CRs and don't give an
actual citation (though I haven't tested citations in posted notes).

I checked the reference manual under save-as and it didn't mention
anything about notes being included in the results of save-as, and it
doesn't mention it under notes or browse.  So I don't know if the
manual includes this fact somewhere else or not not at all.

-- Margot