[Refdb-cvs] CVS: homepage features.html,1.2,1.3

[Markus H. <mho...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/refdb/homepage
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv17945

Modified Files:
	features.html 
Log Message:
added comments about character encodings and about concurrent access

Index: features.html
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RCS file: /cvsroot/refdb/homepage/features.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -U2 -r1.2 -r1.3
--- features.html	24 Dec 2004 15:27:18 -0000	1.2
+++ features.html	16 Mar 2005 20:35:20 -0000	1.3
@@ -165,5 +165,5 @@
 	<li>Import filters are provided for Medline (tagged and XML), BibTeX, MARC, and DocBook.</li>

 	<li>The data can be retrieved as simple text, formatted as HTML, formatted as a DocBook <code>bibliography</code> element (SGML or XML), formatted as a TEI <code>listBibl</code> element (XML), formatted as BibTeX reference list, or formatted as RIS or risx files.</li>

-	<li>All character encodings supported by your platform can be used both for data input and for data export.</li>

+	<li>All character encodings supported by your platform can be used both for data input and for data export. This includes European character sets like Latin-1 and of course Unicode.</li>

 	<li>Extended notes can be linked to one or more references, authors, periodicals, or keywords to create topics or material collections. These are more powerful and flexible than folder systems and the like.</li>

 	<li>The query language is fairly simple yet powerful. You can use booleans to combine queries on any combination of fields. You can use brackets to group queries. You can use Unix-style regular expressions to formulate advanced queries.</li>

@@ -187,4 +187,5 @@
 	<li>Due to the client/server design, RefDB is very well suited as a shared reference database for a workgroup or a department. However, it runs just fine on a single standalone workstation.</li>

 	<li>Users can share databases and still have their personal reference lists.</li>

+	<li>Concurrent read and write access of several users is supported. There is no need to restrict access of other users to read-only. However, if your database engine supports access control (MySQL and PostgreSQL), you <em>can</em> restrict access of some users to read-only.</li>

 	<li>A simple method to access electronic offprints (e.g. in PDF or PostScript format) is provided in the HTML output and in the web interface. This also works across networks using mounted shares.</li>

       </ul>