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From: derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Converter from MS Word to text or nroff [or Scribe] available?
Summary: Also, Scribe (VMS)
Keywords: Microsoft Word, text conversion
Message-ID: <3330@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 12 Jul 90 05:46:24 GMT
References: <10398@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: derek@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (Derek L. / MacLover)
Organization: State U. of New York at Albany Computing Svces.
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In article <10398@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) 
 spilled his guts, writing:
>The documentation department is attempting to place its documents
>online.  The documents are now in WORD 4.0.  Are there any programs
>that do a nice version of converting files from WORD to test or nroff.
>That is, they must perform better than just saving as text; such as
>converting bold to all caps or changing italicized phrases to quoted
>phrases.

	I'd like to make an addendum if I may.  I do all my document
processing and psuedo-publishing on the Mac, but my boss wants all
documentation available in Scribe format on our VAX 8650.  Does anyone know
of a converter that will turn a Word, WriteNow or MacWrite doc into a file
with Scribe commands?  I'd hate to waste three days writing one myself if
it already exists...

	Personally, I think we should just have the lowest common
denominator stored on-line -- PostScript.  After all, several of us can
program in it, and almost every program can output it.  But, that's why
they call her the boss... :-)


>Thanks for any assistance.

	Ditto!

>        Rob Richards                             

						Derek L.
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