-- card: 14651 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 3797 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 88 21:18:27 CST From: Herb Barad >I have a number of entries in FileMaker + for my thesis. Having >recently started to look at Xref which is a stack which was posted in >the binaries board, I needed to import those files into Xref. File >Maker lets you save files with tab or comma delimitors. Most buttons >let you bring import files into hypercard as a new stack. This problem >must have been solved before. Could some one PLEEASE mail me a button >script that will save me from having to retype all those files. Well, I feel somewhat responsible for this. No, I don't happen to have such a button. I was planning on putting in an importing function into Xref, but I never got around to it (I was scampering around finishing my thesis). Here's a suggestion - maybe (???) it will help. Copy the scripts from one of these universal import stacks into Xref. Then alter it to create a new card of the proper background - NOTE that the proper background must be used since it is different for articles, books, technical reports, journals, etc. Xref was a great hack and aid for myself. I have heard that others are using it and that they find it somewhat useful. I'm still a little skeptical of it as I wish I had the time for a polished stack. WARNING: many of the limitations from creating bibliographies that I found were not limitations on Xref, but on MS Word (no surprise there!). For example, when creating the bibliography section from the merge file, you will find that Word will run out of memory when processing > 15 references (arggh). Workaround: just process about 10 at a time (I had 82) and append them together - a pain, but fairly simple. Another limitation, Word only allows up to 128 merge variables! Therefore, if you have > 128 cross-references (and I would think that most theses do) then you might have to do the substitution by hand. I have found these EXTREMELY frustrating and that is why I have not upgraded Xref now that I'm finished my thesis. I hope that anyone who has used Xref has found it useful. It is slow and MS Word limitations can make it frustrating for large documents. I hear FullWrite has bibliography handling... -- part contents for background part 45 ----- text ----- Re: Importing into a stack.