[bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
- From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:31:57 -0600
Dave,
Do you know of a good program to use to edit txt files that can be
downloaded for free?
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 5:18 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: So what did we decide?
> 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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