Re: reorganizing from earlier versions

["Mervyn E. Bennun" <mebennun>]

Muttergrumblehumpfff....

Yeah..... well....OK.....alright..... I suppose......!

Makes sense, I guess..... sort of, on the whole....

;-)

Mervyn

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Bernard" <Mary_Bernard>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE"
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Sent: Sunday, 05 January, 2003 23:54
Subject: Re: reorganizing from earlier versions


> Mervyn
>
> >I repeat a comment I have made before. Why have more than
> >one each of Ibid and Orbis databases? Someone tried to
> >explain this to me, and I was not convinced.
>
> Well, let's see. I have 2 bibliographical DBs. One is for
books used for my
> work, whether or not I own them. For that I use NB's own
entry templates,
> unaltered. The other is for the books Ian and I own. I
have altered the
> supplied templates so that they include a line for a
Counter delta (call
> the file to screen, go to the end, put the cursor on the
last counter
> delta, and it tells me how many books we have - a bit like
train-spotting,
> but never mind). Another line tells me where in the house
to find them.
> Another tells me whether a particular book is part of a
standard edition.
>
> Now all these lines have been made by taking the standard
fields in the
> own-books DB and the Field Descriptions of a few fields.
>
> Counter delta is N #
> Location [in house] is LL
> Standard edition is AD
>
> But in the work DB I use N# and LL for their
strictly-legit purposes. I
> can't really amalgamate the 2 DBs without apportioning 3
or 4 fields to the
> purposes of the own-book DB - and then maybe finding,
later on, that I need
> them. This summer I acquired 2 book-length MSS,
work-related, and was able
> to feed them right into a field I'd never used before. I
couldn't have, if
> I'd already turned that field into the 'counter' field,
for instance.
>
> Not to mention that I *browse* through the own-books db,
and I'd forever be
> wondering what *that* book is doing there; surely I don't
have it, do I -
> or making subsets and finding that they contain books I
don't have. And so
> forth.
>
> All this is to say nothing of my CDs database, which is an
IbidPlus DB, and
> therefore, I assume, not in discussion? - One really can't
enter useful
> info about CDs with fields labelled 'book title'
'subsequent cite title'
> 'place' 'publisher', etc. You need completely customized
field descriptions
> and all.
>
> I did, by the way, once try to amalgamate my work and
own-books DBs, and -
> I forget what happened. I think Ibidem refused to append
the one to the other.
>
> Best wishes from a (so far) unregenerate Ibidem
pluralist -
>
> Mary
>
>
> Mary Bernard
> mary_bernard