jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Pascucci) wrote the following:
> Are there any programs which will transform XYWrite documents
> to something a little more portable? (XYWrite2PostScript would
> be most perferable.:)
>
> I don't have XYWrite, and the $445 pricetag in ComputerShopper
> for XYWrite3.0 is insane for what it appears to do. I'm
> getting some documents in either Ascii or XYWrite format,
> and I'd prefer to keep any pleasant formatting
> that has been worked on, but I'll just take the ASCII
> if it's too much of a pain.
I've used XyWrite 3 a fair bit. There's a (commercial) translator program called Word for Word, which purports to accept XyWrite files and convert them. I tried it to convert to WP5, and it locked up :-(
There's also a shareware/PD Word Processor to Word Processor converter -- you give it the input formatting command, and what it should be translated to. I haven't tried it, though, and can't recall the name.
XyWrite is extremely powerful, but hard to learn. If you bought it, you could use it to write a file in some other format (after a fair amount of learning about its macro & printer driver facilities).
As some-one else has said, XyWrite imbedded commands have the form <<TS5,12,34>> for example to set Tab Stops. If it was me, I'd use an editor to search for those commands and replace them with your own.
