[bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:30:46 -0800 (PST)
-O.K, Dave. What do you suggest we do use? Short of
buying different software, my choices are limited.
Looking on my hard drive, I seem to have something
called Apple Script, and Microsoft Office, and Simple
text, but usually I'm told the file is too big to be
converted to Simple Text, and that's about it. Of
course, I am willing to let those who can validate txt
files and just to rtf files, but i was trying to take
Fair files and he ones I picked happened to be txt.
Cindy
-- talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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