Biblioscape Open Source Project

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Biblioscape Open Source Project

About the Project

One of the main features of a bibliographic software is to format a manuscript by converting the temporary citations into formatted citations and bibliography. Biblioscape does this by read-in the Rich Text Format (RTF) file or HTML file produced by a word processor and generate the formatted document in RTF or HTML. Since RTF is supported by all word processors on Windows, this approach guaranteed that Biblioscape will work with all word processors. But there are two problems: First, RTF is very un-efficient in saving graphics and OLE objects. When there are graphics and OLE objects in a document, Biblioscape can become very slow during formatting, or even hung up. Second, RTF is very well supported by Microsoft products like Word. But some word processors have problems with RTF supporting some rarely used features. The alternative approach is to do the formatting inside a word processor. Biblioscape will generate the formatted reference, while the word processor scripts (macros) do the formatting work. We first started this project with professor Hugh Gunz to find a better solution for WordPerfect users. Biblioscape was modified to return formatted references through Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). Professor Hugh did all the WordPerfect scripts coding. We decided to make this an open source project, so other power users can improve the scripts, as well as porting it to other word processors like Word and OpenOffice. If you are skilled script writer for Word, OpenOffice or other word processors and are willing to participate in this project, please email us at support@biblioscape.com.

WordPerfect Solution

Click here to download the WordPerfect scripts. Please read the Readme.wpd file first before use. You need to install the patch release if your copy of Biblioscape was installed before October 2002.