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- From: dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Looking for WP
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- Message-ID: <dej.0053@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca>
- References: <73885@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan19.134307.19958@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 18:37:03 EST
- Organization: Dejital Software
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- In article <1993Jan19.134307.19958@samba.oit.unc.edu> Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis) writes:
- >>Can anyone sugguest a word processor suitable for writing documentation
- >>files for a freely distributable program in ASCII, or a utility to convert
- >>ProWrite or Excellence! files into straight ASCII with formatting intact?
- >>(niether one does an acceptable job of saving an ASCII text file.)
-
- ProWrite stores its documents in an IFF WORD file whose format is documented
- in the RKMs.
-
- >>I need to keep all formatting (margins, indentation, page numbering,
- >>headers, footers) intact, and have formfeeds at the end of each page if
- >>possible.
- >
- >You might try selecting the GENERIC printer, running CMD, then
- >printing. The printer output gets captured to a file. You may
- >still have to filter the result to remove unwanted returns (ASCII 13).
-
- The generic driver will also eliminate formatting codes such as
- Underline, Bold, etc. You really want an "ansi" printer driver that
- passes the ANSI character stream sent to printer.device through to
- the final destination (parallel.device or CMD). I have such a driver,
- with source code, free for the taking.
-
- I have also created ARexx macros that get ProWrite to generate a
- document automatically (select ansi printer, run CMD, run ProWrite,
- load document, print, quit) that can be launched from a makefile.
- Again, free to those who ask.
-
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