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From: nobody@blia.sharebase.com (Nobody at all)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Exporting Formatted Text from HC2.0
Message-ID: <13779@blia.sharebase.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 17:07:47 GMT
References: <670568447.1@blkcat.Fidonet.Org> <1991Apr2.081825.17264@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Reply-To: jeffb@blackhaw.UUCP (Jeff Beard)
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In article <1991Apr2.081825.17264@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> colinr@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Colin Rose) writes:
>Greetings one and all.
>
>                   EXPORTING FORMATTED TEXT
>
>   In Hypercard, you can format text: ie whole fields or text 
>within fields can be specified to be italic, bold, fontsize etc.
>That is GREAT, but how do I export this information to a
>MS Word file, or other.
>
>    It seems Hypercard will only write to ASCII-style files, 
>which cannot accept such formatting information (bold, italic etc).
>If this is so, it would seem to be a very silly ommission from 
>the upgrade. Any ideas ?
>

Word processors use 'style-sheets' to ease formatting ... you know ...

	title line is centered, BOLD, font X, size Y

	chapter names are BOLD, left justified, new page,

	sections are space above/below, underlined

	body text is filled (justified) with margins x,y

	enumerated lists use hanging intents

and on it goes.  I normally use Word 4.0, but found quickly that custom
style sheets MUST be imported from other documents, so ...

for this kind of problem, I've switched to PageMaker 4.0 which allows one
to add style sheets to the application itself.

Knowing that style sheet XYZ has BOLD, font X, size Y, one can export
ASCII text in this manner:

	open file TheFIle
	write "<XYZ>" to TheFile
	write return to TheFile

	-- items henceforthe are formatted by the definition of
	-- the XYZ style sheet

	..
	..

	-- when done, revert to normal "unformatted control"

	write "<no style>" to TheFile 
        write return to TheFile


In this manner, I am using HC to acquire line items for custom invoice
printing in which the HC data is PLACED into the form.

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J. Beard	jeffb@sharebase.com