[softwarelist] Re: OvPro and RTF
- From: Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:04:25 GMT
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/
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