In message <51aed27501dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10 Jan, dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> There is obviously something amiss with the OvPro RTF Saving. > Remember my quest back in January when getting Her indoors to use OvPro > instead of the Publisher thing. > A sort of works around was used, put the OvPro.rtf into Abiword then > export as RTF which will load into Word okay. > The problem has now become far worse. > Previously she was using sexless quotes, but now using OvPro has taken to > using sexed quotes. > OvPro.Rtf makes a real mess up of it. > Oh it appears to have done the translation okay, but when loaded into > AbiWord, MSWord, etc the start quote/quotes are missing and the end > quote/quotes are the start quote/quotes way around. > She is totally urinated off with the OvPro experience and has now gone > back to Imp Publisher. > Anyone know what's going on here as I certainly don't. Sounds like the inverse of the problem I get importing from Word into OPro/RISC OS. I load the document into Writer (stripped down Easiwriter), and save as text. Then I load the text into OPro - I'm not interested in preserving styles, effects etc - I do that to the house style within OPro. All the quotes, single and double are not mangled, and I have to go through and manually replace them. It's caused by the different character encoding between Windows and RISC OS - RISC OS uses Latin-1 while Windows uses some American standard. The sexed quotes have different ASCII code numbers in the different encodings, so come out as different characters. I don't think disabling import of sexed quotes will help, as the character codes are not the correct Latin-1 codes for sexed quotes. One day I'll get sufficiently annoyed to write a text translator, and it will be just as easy to make it reversible. -- Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nckc.org.uk/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling