NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/misc/15897

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Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!cantva!cctr132
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: XYWrite->AnythingElse
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
From: [e-mail]
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:28:03 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Jason Pascucci) writes:
> Are there any programs which will transform XYWrite documents
> to something a little more portable? (XYWrite2PostScript would
> be most perferable.:)

I'm not a XYWrite user (nor do I know any), but I'm told that XYWrite
and Nota Bene are very closely related.  The (handful of) NB files I've
seen have a very simple structure.  They are basically just text with
formatting "codes".  These codes are also just text, typically being of
the form "<<ps 70>>" (paper size set to 70 lpp), etc.

Half an hour examining the files then access to a PC word processor with
a moderately powerful macro language would probably yield a reasonable
translator unless your files have complex formatting.

Alternatively, for those of that bent, I imagine that awk or perl or
somesuch could also be persuaded to suffice (a PS programmer could
probably generate PS code directly from the doc files with one of
these).

Apart from this ther are many commercial document convertors -- at least
one of them must be able to handle this file format.

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