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- Release Notes for WP2RTF
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-
- April 1, 1992
-
-
- I finally got fed up with manually translating WordPlus files into
- various other word processors. I always lost the extended characters
- in the translation; furthermore each line became a paragraph.
-
- Then I came across a utility called 1WP2TEX (or something like that)
- which had an elementary configuration file in which various
- characteristics could be configured. Alas, my aim was to get the files
- to a Macintosh word processor; and I could not get 1WP2TEX configured
- to do that.
- The reason for this is that the easiest way (in my opinion) of
- converting texts is using an intermediate file format. There exists a
- standardized exchange format (with layout info) called RTF - rich
- text format - that suits all our needs.
- However, the limits of the 1WP2TEX program did not allow for the RTF
- header I needed. So I wrote a similar converter.
-
- How does it work? Well, WP2RTF must the files to translate as
- parameters. Furthermore, the first parameter can be '-t', in which
- case the second parameter must be the name of a translation file.
- The default translation file is called 'WP2RTF.X', which (as its
- name suggests) handles translation to RTF. It may be easy to write
- a translator for (La)TeX, I have not tried.
-
- The format of a translation file is simple.
- Each line starts with either a valid keyword or a character number
- (in hex, preceded by '$'), followed by a separating character; the
- rest of the line is assigned to the character (keyword).
-
- Valid keywords are:
-
- init0 the initialization strings 0..9
- .
- .
- init9
-
- exit termination string
- paragraph paragraph separator
- bold bold command
- underlined underlined command
- italic italic command
- light light command
- super superscript command
- sub subscript command
- off disable last style command
- footnote start of footnote command
- endnote end of footnote command
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-
- Enjoy, J. Scheerder
-
- email: Jeroen.Scheerder@phil.ruu.nl
-