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In article <9028@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, achou@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu (Albert Chou) writes:
|> In article <bernard-050193094653@kashmir.cs.colorado.edu> bernard@cs.colorado.edu (Bernie Bernstein) writes:
|> >The only problem I have had is dealing with references (bibliographical).
|> >There are utilities for MS Word which can auto number and otherwise deal
|> >with their formatting like End Note and WordRef. Do these utilities work in
|> >FrameMaker?
|> 
|> The summary line says it all.  WordRef's author Mark Nodine doesn't even know
|> Word's full save file format, but is lucky that he can access the text inside
|> such a document at a high level at which he doesn't _need_ to know the file
|> format.  So, I'm willing to bet that WordRef won't work at all with anything
|> but Word, _unless_ the document file format allows the same kind of access to
|> text that Word's does _and_ WordRef is or is made capable of reading such
|> files (probably just a matter of changing the file filter).

WordRef assumes that the file contains the ASCII text in order,
possibly with some binary text interspersed.  That assumption holds
for Word documents (at least when Fast Save is turned off).  The
particular sequences chosen for WordRef variables ("<<#..." and
"<<@..") were selected to make it very unlikely that the binary
part would interfere with WordRef's operation.  There may be
other word processors that also store the text in uncompressed
ASCII (MacWrite compresses the text) and in order.  In those cases,
the main difficulty with getting WordRef to work is that the
current version uses a file filter to select out only MS Word
documents.

	--Mark