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ToPP a converter from PROWRITE and EXCELLENCE formated text files to the
textual input format of Professional Page.
The program automatically recognizes which input type (actually each is an
IFF file but has unique ID's so one big case is all thats needed).
One program option is available: suppress outputing font information.
This one has its uses where you have a template setup with the correct
fonts already and just want to retain the style attributes of the text. An
example is the pro-page Templates disk.
Colors are supported: Prowrite supports 7 colors, these I have named
according to some of the builtin default colors from propage.
For E! there were no set of defaults like prowrite, so the colors are set
up as E10, E11, E12, ..., E17 You will need to tell propage what these are
according to how you set them up in E!.
From the program comments:
topp: To prof page; from prowrite and excellence
Synopsis:
This uses the iffcheck.mod routine found in benchmark m2 as
the starting off point and by eliminating the display and
substituting some conversion output, I read a handful of the
IFF chunks and convert to an ascii only representation of
styles, colors and optionally fonts.
usage: topp filenamein [nf] >output_redirect
Note, the nf is actually only tested for existence for now.
It serves to specify no font output.
For prowrite, the space before a paragraph attribute is now
handled. Forget about tabs and other paragraph stuff, it does
not map into propage anyway.
Prowrite colors:
Colors from top to bottom of thedefault prowrite color setup:
Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta
E! colors: E10, E11 ... E17 for 8 different colors as defined
by user in preferences option.
When importing the textfile topp builds, tell propage the text input format
is Generic.
If anyone finds a problem with these conversions, Sending me a zoo file
with a stripped E! or PW file (showing just the problem) would allow me to
fix things. I can be reached as -NOMAD- on peoplelink.
Credits: Thankfully, I had the benchmark debugger and the template iff
check program to start from.