[softwarelist] Re: Control characters in text files

  • From: "John Grogan" <johngrogan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:15 -0000

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Sprangers" <Paul@xxxxxxxx> 

To: "David Pilling (softwarelist)" <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 1:05 PM
Subject: [softwarelist] Re: Control characters in text files



  John Grogan <johngrogan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


When importing plain text files into an OvationPro frame, is it possible
to have control characters or escape sequences in the text file which
will produce effects such as Bold and Italics?


Absolutely.
These effects (and a lot more) are taken care of by the !TransDDF filter,
found in the Filters subdirectory within OvationPro.

To enable Bold, for example, insert the following code into your text:
{Bold on} ...text to be boldened... {Bold off}

Or, if you have defined a Bold style in your Ovation document:
{"Bold" on} ...text to be boldened... {"Bold" off}

Read the Help file of the !TransDDF filter for details.

Kind regards,
Paul Sprangers
Thanks for that info. I've often wondered what all those !Trans... bits were for!
My only problem now is that !TransDDF seems to throw away my form-feeds (\f). I tried {newpage}, {off}{newpage}{on} and even {off}\f{on} but to no avail. Is there a DDF {newpage} type of instruction? 

Regards
John Grogan 

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