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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: Device tty?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.192840.29810@informix.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 19:28:40 GMT
- References: <8eRKDRb0BwwuRKT64M@transarc.com>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: cortesi@informix.com
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <8eRKDRb0BwwuRKT64M@transarc.com> Bill_Chiles@transarc.com writes:
- > 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 have had reasonable luck producing ascii output using simply
- Save As... and specifying text output. Is this what you have tried?
-
- Paragraphing and (to the best of my recollection) centering and right
- justification were preserved. I don't know what Frame does when the
- original para style had full justification on; our para styles are all
- ragged-right, and it comes out ok in ascii.
-
- The major problem we encountered was that lines come out too long.
- A reasonable page width using 9pt proportional text can easily run
- over 80 characters, causing problems when the ascii is edited with vi.
-
- If you mean to do this frequently, you should do something like this.
- First, set up a style template for the purpose. It would have all
- your standard para tags by name, but revised to use a monospaced
- font (courier, bleagh), ragged-right, and margins adjusted to allow
- a max of 80 chars/line.
-
- Make a copy of a document with New; Use Formats to apply the
- text template; and Save As text only. Should work.
-