STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) (02/07/89)
I am interested in writing a program that takes a number of standard word processing files as input and will convert them to other common file formats. Ideally the program would be able to handle MacWrite, MS Word, WriteNow, RTF, and possibly troff and Script files as input and would be able to output them as MacWrite, WriteNow, MS Word, RTF, troff, Scrip, or TeX documents. In other words, you could convert WriteNow documents to MacWrite, troff documents to MS Word, or MS Word documents to TeX! I need to know a couple of things before I embark upon this project. The most important is the amount of info available of the various file types. I have info on MacWrite, Script, troff, and TeX. I assume RTF (rich text format) is easily available, but what about MS Word and WriteNow formats? Does anybody have docs on RTF, WriteNow, or MS Word formats? Secondly, has a program like this been done before? Is there a need for it? And last of all, are there any other common word processor that I have left off this list, for which I might be able to get a complete file format specification? Please e-mail any responses directly to me if possible. I would appreciate any thought or comments that you have. Scott Storkel Macintosh Software Development storkel@rice.bitnet Rice University storkel@rice.edu