Re: Using NB to Convert (was Re: XP & malware, then: Attachments and HTML )

  • From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:17:47 -0700 (PDT)

Harry & Paul:

O.K., I just did a first trial of this and the results were not 
encouraging.  The source was a moderately formatted legal document.  (If it 
wasn't confidential in nature, I might have supplied it as 
a test sample.)  Maybe the problem was that it was written in Xy-3, 
rather than Xy-4 ?  I could see there was a big problem from the 
very start, when NB first tried to open it.  The document opened 
looking like some teeny tiny JPEG graphic, too small to be seen 
really, and at the bottom right status line it said either "Unknown 
Formatting Commands" or "Unrecognized Formatting Commands" -- not 
that it makes that much difference.  (This was in NB 9, as I haven't 
done anything regarding NB 10 as yet.)  I took no further steps at 
this point, like trying to do a conversion to RTF.  Did I botch this 
by the way I went about it, or . . . ?


  Jordan



--- On Thu, 6/7/12, Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Attachments and HTML (was Re: XP & malware)
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7:27 AM



I have been using NB to edit the later chapters of my book.
When each is in nearly final form, needing only tiny changes and
proofing, I export them as RTF and take them into (ugh) Word. The
translation part goes well.


Dear Jordan


I've just returned and haven't been following this thread but I use NB
exclusively now and convert into RTF regularly.  For me that has
worked well although there can be hiccups if there are stray NB/Xy
embedded instructions.  Then it becomes a matter of finding and
eliminating them.  I export large files containing tables and
footnotes without difficulty.  Is that of any help?


Best wishes


Paul

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