\ENDNOTE\

ENDNOTE is a TurboPascal program for handling endnotes in a text
file.  It was originally published in the July, 1986 issue of
PROFILES magazine by its author, David Weinberger.  As my first
programming experience, I have made some minor changes to the
screen display, added an option or two, and the notes and text
merging capability.  Its basic structure, however, remains the
same, for which I am grateful to Mr. Weinberger.

ENDNOTE may be compiled for CP/M or for MS-DOS, using Turbo
Pascal.  The included .OBJ version was compiled on my Kaypro 10
(CP/M 2.2).


Operation:

ENDNOTE simply reads a text file, copying each character into a
new file called FILENAME.FMT until it hits a note delimiter.  At
this point, it types a superscripted number and copies each
subsequent character into another new file called FILENAME.FTN,
following a matching superscript number, until it hits another
note delimiter, when it switches back to copying each character
to the FILENAME.FMT file, and so on.  In the end, you have three
files: the original, unchanged source file, a file of text with
reference numbers, and a file of notes with matching numbers.

ENDNOTE never changes the source file, which can be reedited, and
run through ENDNOTE whenever necessary to change the note order,
etc.

The big advantage of ENDNOTE over other footnote handling
programs available commercially or in the public domain is that
it doesn't require carriage returns as delimiters so you don't
have to type all your notes at the end of each paragraph, but can
type them wherever they occur, throughout a paragraph.


Defaults:

The delimiter ENDNOTE looks for is a backslash character, "\"
(without the quotation marks).  The first backslash should be
where you want the number to be in your text file.  If you want a
blank space between the number and first character of the note
itself, you should follow the first backslash with a space.  Then
type the note, including any print control commands you like
(underlining titles, etc.), ending the note immediately with
another backslash.  Skip one or two spaces before your next
sentence, depending upon your style requirements, or a carriage
return if the note comes at the end of a paragraph.

This version of ENDNOTE is set up for WordStar.  It adds a ^T
before and after each sequential number.  I also set it up to
automatically indent each note 5 spaces.  You can easily change
these and any other values by altering the appropriate constants
at the beginning of the file ENDNOTE.PAS prior to compilation.
To change the delimiter, you have to look for it in the main loop
part of the program.


Prompts:

ENDNOTE prompts for the source file name, starting note number,
for a blank line between notes, and for merging the two output
files together.

The starting note number simply allows you to start the note
numbering sequence with any number, if, for example each
chapter's endnotes had to be ordered sequentially throughout a
book.

The blank line option depends on your note format requirements.
The Modern Language Association style sheet calls for double
spaced notes with a double space between, in which case no
additional line between notes is necessary, if you print or
reformat the note file double spaced.  If your final output will
use single spaced notes, then an additional line is needed.

The merge option enters a page break at the end of the .FMT
output file, centers an underlined title, "Notes", and copies
each character of the .FTN file, erasing it when done, leaving
you with the unchanged source file and a file with text and notes
appended following a page break.  This is handy for users of
Wordstar Release 4 or Perfect Writer which have a print time
formatting capability.  While ENDNOTE copies each character
without leaving gaps where your notes were, it doesn't "fill"
each line to a right margin setting, frequently leaving some
short lines in the middle of paragraphs.  Without print-time
formatting, it is necessary to re-enter your word processor to
reformat such paragraphs, at which time the .FTN file can be read
into your .FMT file in the appropriate spot, and the poroper
titles and formatting commands added, etc.  I added this as a
"quick print" option.  Depending on your settings, the Notes
title may not be centered (or even the correct title for your
style requirements).



Error handling:

ENDNOTE never changes the source file, which can be reedited, and
run through ENDNOTE whenever necessary to change the note order,
etc.

ENDNOTE will keep asking until you give it a file it can find.

ENDNOTE doesn't understand drive or user designations, it can
only be used on the same drive/user as the source file.

ENDNOTE will inform you if it found 0 notes, and erase the two
output files.

ENDNOTE will tell you if there was an unmatched pair of
delimiters in the source file.  If so, it doesn't erase anything,
but you probably ended up with your last note containing the
rest of you text.

I learned alot playing with this program, and it solved a major
problem I was facing using Wordstar to prepare my doctoral
thesis which is chock full of notes.  I am grateful to David
Weinberger for the source program and for his generous help
getting started.

Bob Arnold
111 Spring St.
Syracuse, NY 13208
(315) 422-5847