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cory@enigami.mv.com (Cory Kempf) writes:
> 
> silvers3@husc10.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:
>>It's been said before - I'll say it again. Not everyone has a choice. In the
>>business world, or even on college campuses, it may be next to impossible
>>to shirk the standard. If you only use your own Mac and never share, fine. But
>>Nisus isn't exactly common (or MacWrite II or Taste or whatever) if you do 
>>otherwise.
> 
> Nisus and MacWrite II both support XTND.  Most products can read and
> write Word format files.  What is the problem?  

Yeah, but how good is the conversion that it produces? I've done
quite a bit of file conversion with XTND, and the translation
from one WP to another is almost never perfect. Just recently I
opened a Word document using XTND in WordPerfect, and some of the
lines came out with 90pt line spacing or something ridiculous
like that. (I know WordPerfect opens Word docs directly, but that
did an even worse job, which is why I was trying XTND.) XTND is
OK for simple stuff, but as soon as you start to get even
moderately complicated, strange things start to happen. I
wouldn't really want to use it on an everyday basis.

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