J. J. Wuilbaut's message

[John McNeill]

I was not immediately able to read the recent message from J.J. Wuilbaut;  in
case others had the same difficulty, here is my decoding of it.  John.
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  John McNeill, Director Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum,
  100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, Canada.
  Tel. and fax # 416-586-5744  e-mail: johnm at rom.on.ca
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personnellement, j'utilise Microsoft Access pour cr er mes masques
d'encodage d' tiquettes, avec de nombreuses informations puis, je
fais une fusion dans Word pour l'impression des  tiquettes

 J.J.Wuilbaut
 Cercle de Mycologie de Mons
 R dacteur du Miscellanea Mycologica
 http://users.skynet.be/deneyer.mycology/

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De : Michael <chambe58 at PILOT.MSU.EDU>
A : Multiple recipients of list TAXACOM <TAXACOM at cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Date : mercredi 4 novembre 1998 21:06
Objet : Herbarium label-making programs


>        I was curious if anyone had recommendations for computer programs to
>create and database herbarium specimen labels.  I have used several
>in-house proprietary label-making programs and found these to be buggy, and
>usually with few instructions or troubleshooting aids.
>
>        I've also used Biota, and found the output herbarium labels to be
>generally serviceable, but not very flexible or attractive.  Perhaps Biota
>output could be fed into a mail merge template in Microsoft Word, allowing
>for better control of fonts, italics, etc.  Has anyone tried this?  (I also
>think an Angiosperm database, extracted for Kartesz for example, would be a
>wonderful add-on to Biota, so that each independent user would not have to
>tell the program that Quercus was in the Fagaceae, for example).
>
>        At this time I am most interested in producing good quality herbarium
>specimen labels, but I'd also expect such a program to produce a database
>of the label data.  Judging from the enormous variety of plant labels
>arriving here with exchange specimens, I wonder if any "industry standard"
>label-making program exists for herbaria?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael Chamberland
>Michigan State University Herbarium
>