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- From: copeland@SFU.CA
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- Subject: Re: Tools to clean-up text for posting
- Message-ID: <9211151726.AA23119@fraser.sfu.ca>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:26:52 GMT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
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- In-Reply-To: <9211140120.AA18547@whistler.sfu.ca>; from "Albert Lunde" at Nov
- 13, 92 5:01 pm
-
- >
- > I am writing to ask about the availablity of tools for cleaning up text for
- > posting to gopher or other CWIS servers. I'm especially interested in the
- > process of converting word-processed text from Macs or PCs to a least
- > common-denominator that will work on micro gopher clients and timesharing
- > terminals.
- >
- > I could write a program, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. If you
- > can suggest useful tools, send me e-mail at: "Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu".
- >
- > I will post a summary of responses.
- >
- > Features that come to mind as useful:
- >
- > Converting PC, Mac or Unix end-of-line codes to a common form.
- >
- > Character remapping to make one or two character replacements for Mac or PC
- > specific "high ASCII" characters (i.e. bullets, smart quotes, accented
- > character), and to replace characters (like square brackets that behave
- > badly on EBCDIC terminals).
- >
- > Expansion of tab characters to spaces (using say 4 or 8 char tab stops)
- I"ve found that saving Word files as Courier 12 pt text only with line
- breaks works quite well, and files don't require much additional
- cleanup. I export Pagemaker files to Word and then save them as text
- only with line breaks. Simple, but it works.
-
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