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- Changes from version 2.56 to 2.57
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- NEW ADDRESS
- We have moved, and the program and documentation have been
- modified to show our new Minnesota address.
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINDOWS VERSION
- We are now announcing the release of Jeepers 1.0 for Windows.
- It requires version 3.0 or higher of Microsoft Windows. It has complete
- file compatibility (including both database files and formatting files)
- with JEPRS 2.5 for DOS. Jeepers for Windows requires WordPerfect for
- Windows, Word for Windows, or AmiPro for Windows in order to print
- bibliographies. If your favorite disk vendor or BBS doesn't have
- Jeepers for Windows, you can get a shareware disk from us for $5.
-
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- Changes from version 2.55 to 2.56
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- IMPORTING REFERENCES
- There was a bug in MedLine importing: If the journal name had
- a number in it, it would not import correctly. This has been fixed.
-
-
-
- Changes from version 2.54 to 2.55
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- WORDPERFECT COMPATIBILITY
- JEPRS would sometimes stop reading your WordPerfect manuscript
- before it found all the reference citations. This has been fixed.
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- Changes from version 2.53 to 2.54
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- DUPLICATE CITATIONS IN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- If you cite a reference more than once at the Format Menu (either
- in a Number File, Word Processor Input File, or at the Keyboard), JEPRS
- will now include it only once in the bibliography (even if the references
- are sorted). This feature was added due to requests from users.
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT: JEPRS FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS
- JEPRS for Windows 3.0 will be available sometime in 1992. If you
- would like to put your name on a mailing list for information when it is
- released, please send your name & address to the author.
-
- TITLES IN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- No longer adds a title to your word processor output file (this is
- not necessary, since your word processor can do it better)
-
- WORDPERFECT COMPATIBILITY
- JEPRS occasionally had problems reading WordPerfect files. It would
- sometimes not find any JEPRS codes in your manuscript, even if they were
- actually there. This only happened if you had certain combinations of
- formatting codes at the very beginning of your WordPerfect document. This
- has been fixed.
-
- TOO MANY CITATIONS
- If you used the Format menu to format references from a Number file
- or Word Processor Input File, and there were more citations than references
- in your database (for example, if one reference were cited several times),
- JEPRS might crash. This has been fixed.
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-
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- Changes from version 2.52 to 2.53:
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- USING JEPRS ON PORTABLE COMPUTERS:
- The "Black and White" mode of JEPRS has been modified so that it
- works on *all* portable computers.
-
- BETTER DATA SAFETY:
- A *rare* problem with the *.Jpr and *.Jpk database files has been
- fixed. The problem was that if the power was cut off before JEPRS was
- exited, the files were not properly written to disk; when this happened
- the files became corrupted and the user had to write to me to get the
- database files fixed. This update forces JEPRS to write all the data to
- your disk after any reference is added, imported, or edited. This slows
- down the operation slightly on floppy disks (hard disks are fast enough
- that you shouldn't notice a difference), but provides greater data
- safety.
-
-
-
- Changes from version 2.51 to 2.52:
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- CREATING CONFIGURATION FILES:
- Beginning with version 2.50, JEPRS gave you a menu option to create
- a new config file if it couldn't find the one you specified. That
- feature did not work completely correctly until version 2.52.
-
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- Improvements from version 2.50 to 2.51:
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- EUROPEAN CHARACTER SUPPORT:
- JEPRS now supports foreign (non-English) characters in the IBM PC
- character set. In addition, when JEPRS produces a WordPerfect 5.0/
- 5.1 output document, it automatically converts the IBM PC extended
- characters to the WordPerfect Extended Character Sets.
-
- WORD PROCESSOR SUPPORT:
- JEPRS now *automatically* sets the right margin to infinity when
- sending references to a Word Processor Output File. (In version 2.50,
- you had to modify the printer definition to set "RightMargin=0",
- but unfortunately this was left out of the documentation.) This
- allows your word processor to set the margins, instead of JEPRS.
-
- BUG FIXES:
- Version 2.50 occasionally displayed extra characters when adding
- references; this has been fixed.
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-
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- Improvements from version 2.0 to 2.5:
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- FORMATTING:
- AUTOMATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERATION
- JEPRS can now automatically generate a bibliography in either
- WordPerfect 5.x or PC-Write 3.0 format. All you need to do is place
- special JEPRS codes in your document. For example, if you want to cite
- reference #224, then enter "{J#224}" (without the quotes) into your
- document. Then specify that file as an input word processor file on the
- Format Menu, and the program will read the codes and output the correct
- references.
-
- WRITING WORDPERFECT 5.X AND PC-WRITE 3.0 FILES
- On the Format Menu, JEPRS can produce your output in PC-Write
- 3.0 or WordPerfect 5.x format. This allows users to use special func-
- tions of their word processor that JEPRS itself doesn't support (such
- as full justification, downloadable soft fonts, etc.). This also
- prevents you from having to enter printer codes, since presumably
- your word processor is already set up for your printer.
-
- SORT BY AUTHOR, YEAR, OR JOURNAL
- Sorting by author has long been a feature of JEPRS. But now
- with version 2.5, you can sort by author, year, or journal before your
- references are output.
-
- INSERT PERIODS AFTER AUTHORS' INITIALS
- The standard method for authors' names is like this:
- "Miranda LM, Wright WE"
- But sometimes you will want formatted output that looks like this:
- "Miranda L.M., Wright W.E."
- JEPRS now sports the ability to insert these periods after the
- authors' initials. You can specify this separately for each
- Format Style you create.
-
-
- SEARCHING:
- SORTING IS *MUCH* FASTER
- Because of a change in the way JEPRS accesses your computer's
- memory, sorting time has been dramatically reduced.
-
- SORT BY AUTHOR, YEAR, OR JOURNAL
- As with the Format Menu, you can now sort by author, year, or
- journal, instead of just by author.
-
-
- ADDING/EDITING REFERENCES:
- EDIT MULTI-LINE FIELDS AS ONE SCROLLABLE LINE
- There are several fields on the Add Reference Screen that are
- several lines long, such as title and keywords. In previous versions,
- you had to edit each line separately. Due to a number of requests by
- registered users, version 2.5 now edits multi-line fields as a single,
- scrollable line. This makes it much easier to edit these fields.
-
-
- MOUSE SUPPORT ON MENUS
- New in version 2.5 is the ability to use a mouse for input at
- JEPRS' menus. In order for this feature to work, you must have a
- Microsoft-compatible mouse, and you must have the mouse driver (called
- "Mouse.Com") installed before you start up JEPRS.
-
-
- REMOVAL OF REGISTRATION REMINDER SCREEN
- Registered users of version 2.5 will learn a simple trick that
- will prevent the appearance of the registration reminder screen (this
- is the Opening Screen that reminds you how to register your use of the
- program, and then tells you to "Press F1 for ordering information, or
- any other key to continue"). This results in a nicer entry into the
- program without any nagging. It is a "Thank You" for paying for the
- program.
-
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- IMPORTING: MED2GO
- Registered users of version 2.5 will receive a free utility
- called Med2Go (also available on CompuServe). Med2Go works with JEPRS,
- or any other bibliographic system, to read MedLine, BRS/Colleague,
- ERIC, PsycLit, and comma-delimited files, and produce either MedLine
- or comma-delimited output files.
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