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On Wed, 10 Apr 91 20:47:21 GMT, hedstrom@sirius.UVic.CA (Brad  Hedstrom) said:
>In article <4338@ryn.mro4.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) said:
>> Yes, but--in the demo at least--table formatting was not preserved. It would
>> have been nice if Nisus had done something reasonable. [with Word 4 tables]
> [stuff deleted ...]
>I would imagine that since Word's tables aren't PICTs (one can't copy
>and past them except as text, all formatting is lost), they are
>proprietary data structures that Microsoft isn't too keen on divulging
>to its competitors.
   Framemaker 3.0 may be able to read Word 4 tables ...  in MacWeek of
March 5/91, on page 4 they have a story about Framemaker 3.0.  In it
they describe FM's expanded interchange filters.  They say "Enhanced
MS Word 4 filters ... support Word's embedded tables and index
markers".  Since one of the features of FM 3.0 is an implementation of
fully formatted tables, does this mean that it can read Word 4 tables
and produce an equivalent table in FM 3.0?  If not, what exactly can
FM 3.0 do with imported Word 4 tables?

And, for completeness :-), has anyone used FM 3.0 and been able to
compare its table creation capabilities with those in MS Word 4?

Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos@sirius.UVic.CA>
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