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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:12:29 -0400
- From: Bill_Chiles@transarc.com
- Subject: Device tty?
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- Does anyone know how to get FrameMaker to dump reasonable "text only" files?
- The problem is that they literally dump text only in left justified
- line-oriented packets. I expected them to do something like Scribe's tty
- device compilation where the text adheres roughly to the formatting
- directives. For example, the following simple rules would help me a lot:
- 1] Centered text could be centered in 80 columns (should be set'able).
- 2] Indented formats should be indented. Pixel and linear units should be
- roughly translated into fixed point characters offsets.
- 3] Bulleted lists should be indented and bulleted with hyphens or small
- o's. Pixel and linear units should be roughly translated into fixed
- point characters offsets.
- 4] Enumerated lists should be indented and numbered. Pixel and linear
- units should be roughly translated into fixed point characters
- offsets.
- 5] Paragraphs should be filled (not justified) within 80 columns (should
- be set'able). The text should be right justified if the paragraph
- format specifies such. The text should be initially indented or fully
- indented according to the format. Pixel and linear units should be
- roughly translated into fixed point characters offsets.
-
- Is there an MIF utility that takes MIF files to text files according to the
- above concepts?
-
- Basically, I want to be able to dump FrameMaker text files that roughly look
- like I'd formatted them in some ASCII file using something like gnu-emacs.
- Then I'd be able to ship lists, datafiles, specs, recipes, etc. to people on
- the Internet. With the output FrameMaker gives me now, information is lost
- due to lost reverse indents and the like.
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I could start learning
- MIF and hack up something to do this. In that case, anyone have any MIF
- parsers written in C or Lisp, preferably that run in Think C or MACL.
-
- Bill
-