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Article #13051Re: Converter from MS Word to text or nroff [or Scribe] available?
From: George J. Jefferson
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 13:07
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 1990 13:07
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> > 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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!jeffe From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Converter from MS Word to text or nroff [or Scribe] available? Keywords: Microsoft Word, text conversion Message-ID: <26994@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 13:07:22 GMT References: <10398@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <3330@leah.Albany.Edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (George J. Jefferson) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 11