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Subject:      Wings v.2 no. 2 (part 1 of 6)
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Patience has its rewards, and all that.
 
Deborah Reumann has provided electronic copy of the latest issue of
_Wings_, which has just been mailed out to NB owners and subscribers.
I'm posting it in 6 segments, which will travel faster, and also
because I had to break it up to put it into better format for email.
 
I really don't know any more than the information provided here. I
also suspect that if we inundate Dragonfly with questions (other than
orders), we'll only slow down delivery of the products we're waiting
for (Lingua and Orbis and NB 4.0) Maybe this small feast will
forestall a flood of phone calls.
        --Dorothy Day, Indiana University
 
(I'm just a conduit: I don't have any ties to Dragonfly that
the rest of you don't have!)
=================
WINGS
Volume 2, Number 2
 
Dragonfly Software 285 West Broadway, Suite 600 New York, NY 10013
(212) 334-0445
 
What's Inside
 
Product Update.............................................Page 2
Electronic Forum/XPL Programs..............................Page 3
TechNotes..................................................Page 4
N.B. Tempus................................................Page 5
N.B. Ibid. Plus............................................Page 6
Spellers/New Citation Formats..............................Page 7
Order Form.................................................Page 8
 
   Earlier this year, a Nota Bene user wrote, "One of the endearing
things about Dragonfly and Nota Bene is your focus intensely on
academic writers and on the central product, NB, which is clearly the
product of great respect and love for language. That passion for words
. has certainly made a dedicated fan of me." We are grateful for
this expression of support, and remain committed to our founding
ambition to create the best computer tools possible for those who work
with words.
 
   We haven't tried to hide the fact that we've often thought this a
lonely and economically difficult vision. That's why you've heard us
play the David and Goliath theme so often. But, happily, we're about
to trade in our slings and stones for something better.
 
   First, about three years ago, we began the process of rewriting
Nota Bene, along with its text-retrieval and multilingual modules, to
make the entire program easier-to-use and more elegant, intuitive, and
powerful in the process. We announced the results, in hindsight
somewhat prematurely, in the last newsletter. And although,
regrettably, we've missed some deadlines along the way (see Product
Update for details), everything is finally falling into place: By the
end of this year, we'll be delivering a trio of totally reworked
programs. Improvements have been made everywhere but without sapping
Nota Bene's strengths, or threatening your existing familiarity with
the program. It's not an exaggeration to say that we can't wait for
you and a much larger number of your colleagues still laboring with
WordPerfect or Word, or with nothing at all to get your hands on them!
(The first public demonstration of Nota Bene 4.0/Lingua last week
elicited a repeated "you're sitting on a gold mine!" response from an
academic computer director at a major university. We hope he's right.)
 
   Second, we've been working behind the scenes to make some of our
programs--Orbis and Ibid., for example, along with other new products
that we are developing--work with other word processors. We'll be
announcing these, as they become available, over the next year. While
at first blush this may not seem relevant to dyed-in-the-wool Nota
Bene fanatics, who want tools for use with their word processor, we're
confident that these expanded development efforts will, in the not-
too-distant future, bring great benefit to N.B. users. Our motives for
pursuing this path may be likened to those of a scholar who writes
(pseudonymously, of course), a steamy blockbuster in order to gain the
economic freedom to continue working on a ten-volume history of
English opera. Although we expect our add-on products to be tops in
their class (and to sell well!), the best stuff--tightly integrated,
imaginatively shaped, fully multilingual, passionately committed to
words--will continue to appear in our flagship product, Nota Bene.
 
   Third, we've stretched our horizons, looking towards the
development of a whole range of enhanced, fifth-generation
multilingual word-working tools. In the process, we're happy to
announce that we've begun close collaboration with the Orfo Group, a
gifted team of Russian programmers who have produced an innovative
Russian-language spell checker and other linguistic tools (for
morphological analysis, data compression, multilingual dictionaries,
etc.). Our mutual strengths and interests--academic and linguistic
computing--complement each other nicely, and bode well for the future
of Dragonfly. (One immediate, concrete benefit: Members of the Orfo
programming and product-management teams have been helping us complete
work on our already-announced products, thereby ensuring that they
will see the light of day this year.) Our hope is that these three
significant changes will increase our strength and resources to the
point where we will, at last, be better able to fulfill our initial
vision. This prospect should be as exciting to you as it is to us.

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(page 2)
 
    Product Update
 
   We want all subscribers to the plan announced in our last
newsletter, as well as other loyal users, to know that their patience
will soon be rewarded: Nota Bene 4.0, as well as our updated, greatly
improved language and text-retrieval programs, N.B. Lingua and N.B.
Orbis, are finally nearing completion.
 
   Nota Bene 4.0 is not only a more powerful editor than its
predecessor, it is also much easier to use, thanks, in large measure,
to its new pull-down menus. And N.B. Lingua provides multilingual
capabilities that really stand out from the crowd.
 
   Similarly, Orbis (formerly Nexus) represents a huge leap forward,
greatly simplifying the entire search and retrieval process while
rendering it more efficient. Whether or not you use our current text-
base system, Orbis will provide you with a powerful new research tool.
 
   While we are confident that the resulting products will be very
well received, we deeply regret that it has taken us so long to get
them to you. And we lament, even more, that our projections, announced
in the last issue of Wings, were so far off the mark. The simple truth
is that, especially in the case of Lingua, we were unable to match our
commitment to producing the very best software possible with our
sincere desire to meet the development schedule initially proposed.
 
   You deserve a full explanation. N.B. Lingua was originally intended
to work with Nota Bene 3.0/3.1. However, feedback from testers, and
our own sense of things as we worked with an early version of Lingua,
led us to drastically modify our development plans shortly after the
newsletter was mailed. To paraphrase a Biblical passage, we came to
realize that linking N.B. Lingua with the Nota Bene 3.0/3.1 editor was
a bit like pouring new wine into old wine skins. It could be done, but
it wouldn't be right. N.B. Lingua, we decided, was a wonderful program
which required and deserved better than a three-year-old editor.
 
   The resulting decision to integrate N.B. Lingua with the new Nota
Bene 4.0 editor was not made overnight. From the beginning, we had
intended to add pull-down menus to N.B. Lingua. As we progressed with
this, we recognized that much of the menu structure that we had
completed earlier (we had designed this new interface in early 1989,
before we got sidetracked by Ibid.) needed to be upgraded
significantly to match the efficiency and aesthetics of the new N.B.
Lingua.
 
   Next, at the insistence of some testers, we modified the way we
coded languages. This was not a minor task; however, it would have
been more inconvenient for users if we waited to change the coding
system until a later release.
 
   As time marched on, the editor began to look more and more like
Nota Bene 4.0. For a brief time, we considered releasing an interim
version N.B. 3.2? with N.B. Lingua that would include the pull-down
menus and other, but not all, features of 4.0. But when it became
clear that this would likely delay the release of Nota Bene 4.0
significantly, we reconsidered, reasoning that the long-term gain in
greater ease-of-use, improved memory management, increased
functionality, etc., that would result from linking N.B. Lingua with
4.0, rather than 3.0/3.1, would offset the short-term pain caused by
the resulting delay.
 
   In the meantime, development of N.B. Orbis has continued apace
(indeed, more programmers have been devoted to this project than any
other); however, like N.B. Lingua, dozens of practical considerations,
including our promise to make this version multilingual, made it
similarly impractical to proceed with our plan to link Orbis with Nota
Bene 3.0/3.1. Thus, as with Lingua, N.B. Orbis will be integrated only
with the new Nota Bene 4.0 editor.
 
   Although these changes in our development plans have meant delays
of several months in the release of Lingua and Orbis, these two
products, along with Nota Bene 4.0, will finally be released later
this year. Although we are reluctant to provide an exact date, we are
shooting for the middle of November (a mere six weeks away!).
 
   The last of our announced updates, the next version of N.B. Ibid.
(with in-text footnote citations, customizability, and additional
formats, among other new features) is now slated for release sometime
during the first quarter of 1992.
 
   We very much regret the inconvenience these delays have caused our
subscribers and those new users who delayed using the Special Language
Supplements because they did not want to purchase the extra fonts that
would be obsoleted by the appearance of N.B. Lingua. As a token of our
appreciation for your continued support and patience, we are offering
a significant discount 25% off on the new products announced elsewhere
in this newsletter (all of which are ready to ship and which work with
Nota Bene 3.0/3.1!).
 ______________________________
A full description of the many enhancements and new features included
in Nota Bene 4.0, along with a special upgrade offer for those who
have only Nota Bene (and not N.B. Lingua or N.B. Ibid.) will be sent
to all users in about a month's time, as we draw nearer to our ship
date. Additional information about CCAT texts and extra fonts will
also be included.
 NOTABENE TAUNIVM 10/29/91
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I sent out a series of six messages last night (see below), but
Listserv has not sent back my copy. I'm resending the first one as a
test, in case the earlier sendings are being held hostage in France...
 
If I find that this one gets through before the others, I will proceed
to resend the rest.
        --Dorothy
=======================
 
Subj:   Wings v.2 no. 2 (part 1 of 6)
 
Patience has its rewards, and all that.
 
Deborah Reumann has provided electronic copy of the latest issue of
_Wings_, which has just been mailed out to NB owners and subscribers.
I'm posting it in 6 segments, which will travel faster, and also
because I had to break it up to put it into better format for email.
 
I really don't know any more than the information provided here. I
also suspect that if we inundate Dragonfly with questions (other than
orders), we'll only slow down delivery of the products we're waiting
for (Lingua and Orbis and NB 4.0) Maybe this small feast will
forestall a flood of phone calls.
        --Dorothy Day, Indiana University
 
(I'm just a conduit: I don't have any ties to Dragonfly that
the rest of you don't have!)
=================
Wings
Volume 2, Number 2
 
Dragonfly Software 285 West Broadway, Suite 600 New York, NY 10013
(212) 334-0445
 
What's Inside
 
Product Update.............................................Page 2
Electronic Forum/XPL Programs..............................Page 3
TechNotes..................................................Page 4
N.B. Tempus................................................Page 5
N.B. Ibid. Plus............................................Page 6
Spellers/New Citation Formats..............................Page 7
Order Form.................................................Page 8
 
   Earlier this year, a Nota Bene user wrote, "One of the endearing
things about Dragonfly and Nota Bene is your focus intensely on
academic writers and on the central product, NB, which is clearly the
product of great respect and love for language. That passion for words
. has certainly made a dedicated fan of me." We are grateful for
this expression of support, and remain committed to our founding
ambition to create the best computer tools possible for those who work
with words.
 
   We haven't tried to hide the fact that we've often thought this a
lonely and economically difficult vision. That's why you've heard us
play the David and Goliath theme so often. But, happily, we're about
to trade in our slings and stones for something better.
 
   First, about three years ago, we began the process of rewriting
Nota Bene, along with its text-retrieval and multilingual modules, to
make the entire program easier-to-use and more elegant, intuitive, and
powerful in the process. We announced the results, in hindsight
somewhat prematurely, in the last newsletter. And although,
regrettably, we've missed some deadlines along the way (see Product
Update for details), everything is finally falling into place: By the
end of this year, we'll be delivering a trio of totally reworked
programs. Improvements have been made everywhere but without sapping
Nota Bene's strengths, or threatening your existing familiarity with
the program. It's not an exaggeration to say that we can't wait for
you and a much larger number of your colleagues still laboring with
WordPerfect or Word, or with nothing at all to get your hands on them!
(The first public demonstration of Nota Bene 4.0/Lingua last week
elicited a repeated "you're sitting on a gold mine!" response from an
academic computer director at a major university. We hope he's right.)
 
   Second, we've been working behind the scenes to make some of our
programs--Orbis and Ibid., for example, along with other new products
that we are developing--work with other word processors. We'll be
announcing these, as they become available, over the next year. While
at first blush this may not seem relevant to dyed-in-the-wool Nota
Bene fanatics, who want tools for use with their word processor, we're
confident that these expanded development efforts will, in the not-
too-distant future, bring great benefit to N.B. users. Our motives for
pursuing this path may be likened to those of a scholar who writes
(pseudonymously, of course), a steamy blockbuster in order to gain the
economic freedom to continue working on a ten-volume history of
English opera. Although we expect our add-on products to be tops in
their class (and to sell well!), the best stuff--tightly integrated,
imaginatively shaped, fully multilingual, passionately committed to
words--will continue to appear in our flagship product, Nota Bene.
 
   Third, we've stretched our horizons, looking towards the
development of a whole range of enhanced, fifth-generation
multilingual word-working tools. In the process, we're happy to
announce that we've begun close collaboration with the Orfo Group, a
gifted team of Russian programmers who have produced an innovative
Russian-language spell checker and other linguistic tools (for
morphological analysis, data compression, multilingual dictionaries,
etc.). Our mutual strengths and interests--academic and linguistic
computing--complement each other nicely, and bode well for the future
of Dragonfly. (One immediate, concrete benefit: Members of the Orfo
programming and product-management teams have been helping us complete
work on our already-announced products, thereby ensuring that they
will see the light of day this year.) Our hope is that these three
significant changes will increase our strength and resources to the
point where we will, at last, be better able to fulfill our initial
vision. This prospect should be as exciting to you as it is to us.

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(page 3)
 
The Nota Bene Electronic Forum
 
    An electronic forum for Nota Bene support is available to any user
who wishes to subscribe to the BITNET-based discussion group. The
NOTABENE List currently has about 150 members, from many countries:
the US, Israel, Canada, the UK, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands,
Sweden, Denmark and others. Queries may be posted about regular Nota
Bene, SLS, or Ibid. programs, as well as the special Israeli/Hebrew
version of Nota Bene. Common hardware problems and use of other
relevant DOS text-processing or utility programs are also frequent
topics of discussion. Submissions mailed to the NOTABENE List are
forwarded daily to the electronic mailboxes of all members.
Subscribers benefit not only by having access to peer and guru
support, but also by being able to download valuable Nota Bene
programs. Subscription to the List is free-of-charge and is available
from any of the major academic networks (BITNET, NetNorth, Internet,
UUCP, JANET and other European academic networks), as well as from
commercial mail services like MCI-mail and Compuserve (information
about subscribing through these commercial networks is available upon
request). Users would thus normally read mail using a mainframe
account (perhaps via modem); contact your university computing center
for details on accessing BITNET. The LISTSERV itself is physically
maintained at an IBM/BITNET site in Tel Aviv.
 
   How to Subscribe
 
    To subscribe to the NOTABENE discussion group, send an interactive
message OR standard network mail to the BITNET LISTSERVer (an
automated management system):
    To: LISTSERV@TAUNIVM
 
with this single-line content:
       SUB NOTABENE Your Name
 
    If you subscribe in a mail message, print the content on the first
line, not on the subject line. The LISTSERVer will ignore the subject
line. You will receive a message confirming your subscription. Your
first step to using the list should be to send a oneline message to
LISTSERV@TAUNIVM, requesting the novice's guide:
       GET NOTABENE GUIDE
 
    The GUIDE will explain general usage of the LISTSERVer for
requesting the membership listing, an index of files available, or
individual program file archives.
    --Courtesy of NOTABENE forum member,
      Robin Cover, ZRCC1001@SMUVMI
 
  --XPL Programs for Nota Bene--
 
    Members of the Nota Bene Electronic Forum are able to periodically
download Nota Bene programs which have been written in the Extended
Programming Language, XPL, by other Nota Bene users. These include
enhanced or abridged HELP files, utility programs which are activated
by keyboard macros or with the run command, extensive documentation on
using XPL, etc. Although other members are now undertaking XPL program
writing, the main contributors up to this point have been Itamar Even-
Zohar, John Morris, and Anthony Woozley. Over 300 programs are
available programs that should save you many keystrokes and provide
valuable insights.
 
    Dragonfly has been asked to make the XPL programs and
documentation available to Nota Bene users who do not, for whatever
reason, subscribe to the electronic list. We are pleased to do so with
the following understanding:
 
1    Regretfully, our technical staff does not have the time to
     support the XPL programs; help should be sought from other NB
     users.
 
2    Though we have great respect for the authors, we have not had the
     time to carefully evaluate the programs (though a cursory glance
     shows many to be quite clever). They are offered in a spirit of
     collegiality among NB users and should be accepted in that same
     spirit.
 
3    Since many XPL programs are written to fulfill a need arising
     from some deficiency in the Nota Bene program, they may become
     obsolete when new versions of NB become available. Others may
     simply need to be updated to take better advantage of new
     features. When relevant, we will offer updated programs as soon
     as possible after any new release; for more frequent updates, you
     will need to access the List.
 
4    Although the programs and documentation may be downloaded from
     the List at no cost, we are charging a $15 fee to defray the cost
     of disk production and shipping/handling. Since the fee is
     minimal, no refunds will be offered in the (unlikely) event that
     you find the programs unhelpful.
 
To order, please use the form on the back page.
 
We would be remiss if we did not take this opportunity to acknowledge
our indebtedness to Itamar Even-Zohar of Tel Aviv University, who
began the Electronic Forum and who has spent countless hours writing
XPL programs and documentation and generously providing support to NB
users around the world.
 
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(pages 4 & 5)
 
[Note: The Carriage return character has been replaced below
by <<CR>>]
 
 --Converting Data to N.B.Ibid. Format--
 
   Pre-N.B. Ibid., many of you were keeping track of your
bibliographic references in other ways  some, by creating a
bibliographic text base,others, by using database programs such as
dBase. While conversion utilities which will automatically transfer
bibliographic data from some of the most popular bibliographic
database programs (ProCite and Notebook II w/N.B. Citation, for
example), to Ibid. format will be available in the future, even non-
standard bibliographic reference files now can be transferred to your
N.B. Ibid. database without the need for retyping each entry.  This is
possible because Ibid.'s data files are simply text files which
contain markers that Ibid.'s indexer recognizes.
 
   When you use N.B. Ibid.'s data entry interface, these markers,
called field names and separators, are automatically entered into the
bibliographic data file.  If a pre-existing bibliography can be
formatted to approximate an Ibid. data file, labels and separators can
easily be inserted with Nota Bene. Preparing a file for N.B. Ibid.
thus requires two important steps:  Breaking up an entry into  fields
such as author,  title, and publisher, each  of which must be on a
separate line.  Inserting the field labels  and separators, and the
record separators, that N.B.  Ibid. uses to identify and  interpret
data.   If you are converting data from a database program, such as
dBase, that program's report-generating utility might help to automate
the process of separating outfields and inserting labels. Just
remember that any file created by another program must be in text
(ASCII) format to be used by N.B. Ibid.
 
   The following definitions should help you understand the terms used
in these instructions.
 
Field labels: A two letter(uppercase) code followed by a colon
   prefaces each field of a record (bibliographic entry). A list of
   field labels may be found on pages 106 and 107 of the N.B. Ibid.
   User Guide. Each field entry must be preceded the field label which
   identifies the particular contents of that field.
 
Field separators: Within each record, individual fields are separated
   from each other by a non-breakable space, which appears screen as a
   dot, and a carriage return. The dot-carriage return combination
   must be placed at the end every field entry.
 
Record separators: A page-break delta signals the endow each record.
   The page-break delta must immediately follow the dot-carriage
   return marking the end of the last field of an entry.
 
 A Step-by-Step Guide
 
   To convert your non-Ibid. data to Ibid. files, create a text file
with the following characteristics:
 
1) Each field is preceded by the appropriate label and followed by a
   unique symbol that marks the beginning of a new field (field
   separator). Ideally, each field should be on its own line. A sample
   of the required file format is printed below.
 
   If you cannot immediately create a file with N.B. Ibid.'s field and
   record separators, you may use any unique symbol. Then be sure to
   convert these symbols into the appropriate separators as explained
   in step3.
 
2) There must be no extraneous (non-ASCII) symbols in the file. Any
   deltas other than the page-break record separators should be
   removed. Deltas containing print mode commands like bold or
   underline may interfere with N.B. Ibid.'s automatic formatting.
 
   It is very important eliminate any format commands that come
   between the beginning of a line and a field label. As print mode
   commands do not show up as deltas, you will need to examine the
   file in expanded mode ([SHIFT]+[F8]).
 
3) The field and record separators used in the text field must be the
   standard dot-carriage return (. <<CR>>)and page break delta (<<PG>>). If
   your text file uses other symbols, use Nota Bene's search and
   replace commands to convert them. The following command corrects
   non-standard field separators:
   [F9] ci \old_symbol1\. <<CR>>\[F10]
 
   The . must be typed with [ALT] + [Spacebar]. The <<CR>> symbol can be
   typed on the command line with:
   [SHIFT] + [ALT] + [Enter].
 
   To convert record separators, switch to Expanded Mode by pressing
   [SHIFT] +[F8] and execute the following command:
   [F9] ci \old_symbol2\<<PG>>\
 
   The << and >> symbols are typed on the command line using the
   square bracket keys. To enter the left double angle bracket, press:
   [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ALT]+[
 
   To enter the right double angle bracket, press:
   [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+[ALT]+]
 
   Once you have created a text file as described above,you can
   integrate it into your N.B. Ibid. database.
 
1) Access N.B. Ibid.'s UPDATE utility with the following keystrokes:
   [CTRL]+[F6]] - [F9] -UTILITY - UPDATE
 
   You may be asked to approve new or edited entries. You may do this
   by pressing [Enter] when prompted. This step indexes any recent
   entries you have added using N.B. Ibid.'s data entry procedure.
 
2) Copy the text file containing the data to be added into your
   bibliography sub-directory (usually \NB), giving it the name
   NBBIB.DAT. This is accomplished with the command:
   [F9] copy textfile C:\NB\NBBIB.DAT [F10]
 
   NBBIB.DAT is the file that holds N.B. Ibid. entries before they
   have been indexed.
 
3) Once again, access Ibid.'s UPDATE utility with:
   [CTRL]+[F6]] - [F9] -UTILITY - UPDATE
 
   This step indexes the new entries into your main data-base.
   NBBIB.DAT will be erased and the new entries will be added to the
   NBBIB.DAT files.
 
   You should now be able to access all your bibliographic entries
from within N.B. Ibid.
 
  o  Sample Printout of NBBIB.DAT
 
AU:Attali, Jacques . <<CR>>
BT:Noise: The political economy of music . <<CR>>
BC:Massumi, Brian <trans>; Jameson, Fredric <foreword by>; McClary,
Susan <afterword by> . <<CR>>
SR:Theory and History of Literature <vol. 16> . <<CR>>
PL:Minneapolis . <<CR>>
PR:University of Minnesota Press . <<CR>>
YR:1985 . <<CR>>
LG:179 pp . <<CR>>
<<PG>>
AU:Auerbach, Erich . <<CR>>
BT:Scenes from the drama of European literature . <<CR>>
BC:Valesio, Paolo <foreword by> . <<CR>>
SR:Theory and History of Literature <vol. 9> . <<CR>>
PL:Minneapolis . <<CR>>
PR:University of Minnesota Press . <<CR>>
YR:1984 <1959> . <<CR>>
LG:256 pp . <<CR>>
<<PG>>
AU:Bataille, Georges . <<CR>>
BT:Visions of excess: selected writings, 1927-1939 . <<CR>>
BC:Stoeki, Allan <ed>; Stoeki Allan; Lovitt, Carl R.; Leslie, Donald
M., Jr. <trans> . <<CR>>
 
SR:Theory and History of Literature <vol. 14> . <<CR>>
PL:Minneapolis . <<CR>>
PR:University of Minnesota Press . <<CR>>
YR:1985 . <<CR>>
LG:271 pp . <<CR>>
<<PG>>
AU:Cros, Edmond . <<CR>>
BT:Theory and practice of sociocriticism . <<CR>>
BC:Schwartz, Jerome <trans>; Link, Jurgen; Link-Heer, Ursula <foreword
by> . <<CR>>
SR:Theory and History of Literature <vol. 53> . <<CR>>
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(page 5, cont.)
 
A New Resident Calendar: N.B. Tempus
 
   Picture, if you will, a busy professional writing an article with
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(pages 6 & 7, and back page order form)
 
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Note to Subscribers: although an extension of the Ibid. program, Ibid.
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The following five journal styles have recently been added to N.B.
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  o  American Anthropological Association
  o  Anthropology
  o  Option 1 (Praeger compatible)
  o  Option 2 (Praeger [APSA] compatible)
  o  Uniform Requirements
  o  Medline
 
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available to all subscribers (see "Product Update," page 2).
 
                                Reg     Sub
 
N.B. Ibid. Plus                 $49     $37     ________
N.B. Tempus                     $29     $22     ________
Spell Checkers (check below)
        French
        German
        Italian
        Spanish
        UK English
        Stedman's Medical
        Black's Law
  One checker                   $69     $52     ________
  Two distinct checkers         $129    $97     ________
  Three distinct checkers       $179    $134    ________
  Four distinct checkers        $219    $164    ________
  Five distinct checkers        $249    $187    ________
  Six distinct checkers         $279    $209    ________
  Seven distinct checkers       $309    $232    ________
Add'l Ibid. Citation styles     $15     $15     ________
XPL programs/ondisk docs        $15     $15     ________
 
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