derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover) (07/12/90)
In article <10398@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) spilled his guts, writing: >The documentation department is attempting to place its documents >online. The documents are now in WORD 4.0. Are there any programs >that do a nice version of converting files from WORD to test or nroff. >That is, they must perform better than just saving as text; such as >converting bold to all caps or changing italicized phrases to quoted >phrases. I'd like to make an addendum if I may. I do all my document processing and psuedo-publishing on the Mac, but my boss wants all documentation available in Scribe format on our VAX 8650. Does anyone know of a converter that will turn a Word, WriteNow or MacWrite doc into a file with Scribe commands? I'd hate to waste three days writing one myself if it already exists... Personally, I think we should just have the lowest common denominator stored on-line -- PostScript. After all, several of us can program in it, and almost every program can output it. But, that's why they call her the boss... :-) >Thanks for any assistance. Ditto! > Rob Richards Derek L. -- + + One Mac is worth exactly 2.317 PCs (based on current price indices) + + Disclaimer: I was asleep. ---}=-------------------------` ++ All the busy little creatures / Chasing out their destinies --Peart ++
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson) (07/12/90)
> > Personally, I think we should just have the lowest common >denominator stored on-line -- PostScript. After all, several of us can >program in it, and almost every program can output it. But, that's why >they call her the boss... :-) I have to agree with the boss here. Postscript is good for printing, but it is particularly difficult edit. For example a text file in PostScript format contains 'carriage returns' at the end of each line. George Jefferson jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu george@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu