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- From: kevin@simd.stanford.edu (Kevin W. Rudd)
- Subject: Re: Problem with MIF format? Possibly related to conditional text?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182818.7800@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov18.092427.17124@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1881@scax18.pki-nbg.philips.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:28:18 GMT
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- In article <1881@scax18.pki-nbg.philips.de> pla_jfr@pki-nbg.philips.de writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Nov18.092427.17124@leland.Stanford.EDU>, kevin@simd.stanford.edu (Kevin W. Rudd) writes:
- >
- >|> Just curious if anyone else had had problems with conditional text and/or
- >|> MIF format.
- >
- >To save in MIF format means to loose some information, e.g.
- >printer settings. AND, please try it yourself: Save a document
- >in MIF format, open the MIF file and save it again as MIF file.
- >Then "diff" the two MIF files. There are differences!
- >
-
- Losing some setting information (screen size, printer settings, etc.
- is not unreasonable. However, having the text reformatted differently
- is unacceptable. In this case, using MIF and conditional text, saving
- in MIF format and then reloading apparently moves the end-of-paragraph
- markers inside the conditional text rendering one very large paragraph
- out of a number of smaller paragraphs.
-
- I can understand that the MIF format is simply a medium of exchange of
- text data, but it should be an ACCURATE exchange of text data. Otherwise,
- it should not be called an interchange format.
-
- -- Kevin
- --
- kevin@umunhum.Stanford.EDU
- kevinw@leland.Stanford.EDU
-