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- From: nodine@lcs.mit.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Mac Disertation Word Processor
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.170847.7713@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:08:47 GMT
- References: <ARIE.93Jan4155753@quip.eecs.umich.edu> <o891He9jwb@atlantis.psu.edu> <bernard-050193094653@kashmir.cs.colorado.edu> <9028@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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- In article <9028@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, achou@plasma.icsl.ucla.edu (Albert Chou) writes:
- |> In article <bernard-050193094653@kashmir.cs.colorado.edu> bernard@cs.colorado.edu (Bernie Bernstein) writes:
- |> >The only problem I have had is dealing with references (bibliographical).
- |> >There are utilities for MS Word which can auto number and otherwise deal
- |> >with their formatting like End Note and WordRef. Do these utilities work in
- |> >FrameMaker?
- |>
- |> The summary line says it all. WordRef's author Mark Nodine doesn't even know
- |> Word's full save file format, but is lucky that he can access the text inside
- |> such a document at a high level at which he doesn't _need_ to know the file
- |> format. So, I'm willing to bet that WordRef won't work at all with anything
- |> but Word, _unless_ the document file format allows the same kind of access to
- |> text that Word's does _and_ WordRef is or is made capable of reading such
- |> files (probably just a matter of changing the file filter).
-
- WordRef assumes that the file contains the ASCII text in order,
- possibly with some binary text interspersed. That assumption holds
- for Word documents (at least when Fast Save is turned off). The
- particular sequences chosen for WordRef variables ("<<#..." and
- "<<@..") were selected to make it very unlikely that the binary
- part would interfere with WordRef's operation. There may be
- other word processors that also store the text in uncompressed
- ASCII (MacWrite compresses the text) and in order. In those cases,
- the main difficulty with getting WordRef to work is that the
- current version uses a file filter to select out only MS Word
- documents.
-
- --Mark
-