dolf@uva.uucp (Dolf Starreveld) (08/05/86)
As much as anyone else, we wanted to know more about the internal format
of MS Word document files. Since no information showed up after several
requests in this newsgroup, we decided to have a peek inside and see
what we could find out ourselves. We found out quite a lot, though not
everything. In net.sources.mac you will find a binhexed file (MS Word
document) describing what we have discovered. The list of things that we
can explain contains items such as:
character style formats, paragraph layout formats, tab
settings, footnootes, runningheads, picture paragraphs, file
header and the text itself of course.
We are still working on it and we have already discovered a few things
that are not in this document. We still have to put it in, so be
prepared for the next version of this document.
We encourage everyone to make use of the information provided, but we
expect you to be fair and place every program you develop based upon
this information in the public domain, or at least make it a shareware
product. (Free for us of course !). Also we would like anybody who
discovers new facts about the format, or who finds errors in our
explanation to inform us.
We are currently working on a skeleton program which will provide
functions to read an MS word document and store all formatting
information in memory, so that with the addition of a few user defined
procedures things like mw2troff (msw2troff) can be made. Expect the
source of this program (AZTEC C) in net.sources.mac in the future.
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Dolf Starreveld / Maarten Carels
Department of Computer Science, UvA
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Snail mail: Dolf Starreveld
Department of Computing Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 409
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telefone: In Holland: 020-592 5137/5022
International: 31-20-592 5137 or 31-20-592 5022
Telex: 10262 HEF NL
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Dolf Starreveld
Department of Computer Science, UvA
Usenet: dolf@uva.uucp
{seismo,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!uva!dolf
Snail mail: Dolf Starreveld
Department of Computing Science
University of Amsterdam
Kruislaan 409
NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Telefone: In Holland: 020-592 5137/5022
International: 31-20-592 5137 or 31-20-592 5022
Telex: 10262 HEF NL