[softwarelist] Re: Import text to Ovation Pro with basic stye information

David Pilling wrote:
In message <481F5365.3070508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
I want to import text to Ovation Pro with basic styles.
Something like commands to right or left justify lines of text.
Is there any way to do this? I have thought about doing it via Impression DDF, but that is more complicated than I want:
I'd think DDF was pretty simple, the other obvious option is OP DDL - mark some text and save it as DDL to get the idea. 

There is somewhere an HTML import filter.

(http://www.heyrick.co.uk/software/ovhtmlwin.html)
Plan B would be to use macro commands - look at some of the macro definitions.
You could of course write your own filter, whatever format you want in, and OP DDL out. It only has to be a command line program with two arguments - in and out file names.
If I had 3 styles define in OPro, 'left' 'right' and 'centre' and I set them up with 'line' scope and there was some way to embed them into imported text, that would be ideal.
OP DDL I think would do that, probably the snag is that DDL wants text strings quoting and then things like styles in {}'s 

{addstyle  "bold"} "Hello World" {remstyle "bold"}

something like that.
I was looking for something really simple. I need to export text from a Fireworkz sheet and import it into an OPro template document. I don't want too much stuff cluttering up the spreadsheet as it will make maintenance difficult (the sheet is about 1M big). In the end I think I can manage with just one tab in any line which can then be done neatly with DDL (which at least understands a simple {tab} command. 

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Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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