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From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX EditoR ?
Keywords: Question on editor
Message-ID: <366@clover.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Jan 90 11:47:32 GMT
References: <232@netdev.UUCP> <365@clover.warwick.ac.uk> <2147@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Reply-To: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
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In article <2147@alpha.cam.nist.gov> koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) writes:
> In article <365@clover.warwick.ac.uk>, bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) writes:
> >
> > An alternative is to save the documents formatted, and to strip the
> > formatting information before feeding to the screen/printer display
> > programmes. I messed around with that for a while when I first installed
> > Microsoft Word 3.1, ...
>
> If you are going to mess around with ad hoc extraction processes it is
> easier to start with a word processor that records its formatting
> information in clear ASCII, like XyWrite, Nota Bene, or, I think, Word
> Perfect.

Perhaps I should have also said that in that version of Word, the formatted
file has a simple structure:
    i) 128 byte header, with identifying byte and address of start of
       part (iii);
   ii) visible text;
  iii) all format information.
So for input to TeX/LaTeX all that I needed was to trim off (i) and (iii).

Hylton