[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a txt document
- From: "Jake" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:52:57 -0500
The reference was to control and page down being used simultaneously
(ctrl+pgdn)
Jake
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a txt document
> Cindy,
> Txt files don't retain any font information so italics, underline, and
bold
> characteristics can't be kept. I thought that I did get a file created in
> notepad to retain m-dashes, but I tested that because I was thinking that
it
> couldn't. I didn't think there was an ascii character for m-dash. I
think
> it may very well depend on the type of txt file you create. Word can make
> several kinds, so that should be investigated. If you can't possibly get
> the txt files to keep m-dashes replace them with 2 single dashes, which is
> less desirable than m-dashes, but far more accurate than a single dash
with
> or without spaces arround them. Finding the best kind of txt file should
> also fix the problem of the pagebreaks disappearing. That certainly can
be
> fixed unless the Mac version of Word is really different. .:-) These
> factors are what make rtf's more desirable than txt's.
>
> On another toppic, PageDown in Word only takes you to the next screen of
> text not to the next page of the document or book.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>
>
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