young@ditsyda.oz (Steven Young) (02/01/90)
in article <55550@srcsip.UUCP>, thompson@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Thompson) says: > Does anyone know of a way to read text documents created in MS Word in > SuperCard. I want to be able to use all the formatting commands already in > the documents, such as bold, underline, fonts, and such. Therefore, I do > not want to output the document as ASCII text for use as I lose all the > goodies. Any help would be very much appreciated. TIA My suggestion is to output the MS Word documents as RTF Interchange format. RTF is a text format with the formatting commands included as text in parentheses. There is obviously a specification for the RTF format (which, I understand, is used by MS products to allow porting of files between applications which don't have other converting facilities) but I don't have it. This text file though is possibly more parsable than other formats. I have been working with a hypercard system which outputs RTF format within its reporting facility, and this then is readily used by MS Word to give a document which is formatted as desired. Cheers, Steven Young.