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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 14:17:43 EST
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- From: Dorothy Day <DAY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
- Subject: RE: NB 4 File formats
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- Clifford Flanigan asks:
-
- >I believe someone on this list, perhaps Dorothy Day, said at some point
- >that the file format of NB 4 will differ from early versions. Am I
- >remembering this correctly? If this is the case, will this affect the way
- >translation utilities and other utilities that recognize the Xywrite format
- >and formatting commands work? Will this new format be identical or similar to
- >the format in Signature?
-
- There is almost no change in file format from NB3 to NB4; one
- exception is that instead of using RM for "right margin," you will find
- this information in your NB3 documents automatically converted to the
- more descriptive TW for "text width" when brought up under NB4.
- Perhaps others will remind of other new usages that don't come to my
- mind just now. Since TW, at least, is not documented as a XyWrite
- format command, I would guess that this will somewhat hamper file
- conversion using XyWrite III+ as the source format, unless TW deltas
- are left out altogether. (Most likely they will simply be ignored.)
-
- A limited edition of Word for Word will be included with NB4 (though
- probably shipped separately), designed to add Word Perfect and
- MS Word conversion to currently offered formats.
-
- It's N.B. Lingua documents that will be significantly different from
- SLS files. SLS files are currently almost impossible to convert to
- another system, so that's not a crisis. A utility to convert SLS to
- Lingua is included. The good news is that Lingua now imports and
- exports a number of standard national formats for Russian, Hebrew,
- and Greek, greatly increasing portability.
-
- Dorothy Day, Indiana University
- Bitnet: DAY@IUBACS
- Internet: day@ucs.indiana.edu
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