Bibliographic software for FM?

[Art Campbell]

My oen (limited) experience, from crafting my own thesis and doing
several academic books is that with Frame, the easiest way to craft
Chicago-style footnotes and eventually a bibliography was to create
kind of a flat-file database. By that I mean creating a separate FM
file with a unique set of tags, one tag for each element in a
citation: Title, Author, Year, etc.

Enter the information using the appropriate tags, one chunk of info to a line.

In the actual FM working files, in the footnotes, set up
cross-references to the appropriate entry, so that the footnote is
built from a set of cross-references.

If you're really good, you can make the source file the bibliography
file too. ;- )

Art


On 8/25/06, Moores <mooresd at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Greetings, Frame Magicians!
>
> I am contracting at a company that is about to compile a large report
> that will include many graphics and many bibliographic citations.
> Although the diverse authors will draft in MS Word, our preference is
> for the final document to be in Framemaker (7.0). We are looking for
> recommendations for reference management software-- some of the authors
> have some familiarity with EndNote, but they will purchase based on the
> best program for this and future projects.
>
> I haven't had the luxury of anything except hand-built reference lists
> before-- how painful is the RTF export part of the process (that builds
> the library?) for EndNote? Are other programs more compatible and still
> effective? Who has the magic website with a feature comparison list? (I
> did search before posting.)
>
> I've downloaded the EndNote trial to play with but the company is eager
> to move quickly so I am pursuing this path of wisdom as well as my own
> self-education route.
>
> Thank you for any assistance,
>
> Kathleen Moore
> mooresd hmmmm pacbell.net
>
>
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