No, no, no!
That's exactly the problem.
An honest to goodness txt file will include page breaks, and have done so
since the days of the teletype machine.
What's stripping these page breaks is MS Word, Wordpad, etc.
Wordpad's native format is RTF, MS Word was originally written to use RTF
as their native format as well, what these programs are doing is importing
txt files so you can manipulate the files in them to fit the specs you
designate. They are either stripping, or turning into soft, page breaks,
the existing hard page breaks. When you look at it from their perspective,
this makes sense. It allows you to change the formatting to meet your
current needs, and to change margins, fonts, etc. This is intended to let
you print documents the way you may now want to. From the software
manufacturers point of view, after all, why would you be importing a txt
file into a word processor, unless you wanted to manipulate the
data? These programs people are attempting to use to edit txt files are
word processors, not archival programs.
If you use a txt to rtf conversion program, the original hard page breaks
will be retained, but I guess the bottom line here is don't use Word or
Wordpad to edit a txt file.
Dave
At 02:18 PM 11/14/2004, you wrote:
Having bookshare automate the conversion on their end would probably not achieve the purpose, because by then the pagebreaks would have been already stripped by the original .txt so the resulting rtfs would also have no pagebreaks.
