Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!viusys!uxui!unislc!jkimble From: jkimble@unislc.uucp (Jim Kimble) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: What do writers want from a word processor? Message-ID: <1991Apr24.022745.854@unislc.uucp> Date: 24 Apr 91 02:27:45 GMT References: <1991Apr17.175001.8402@sjuphil.uucp> Organization: The Pros From Dover Lines: 28 tmoody@sjuphil.uucp (T. Moody) writes: > > > I recently finished a book manuscript for Prentice Hall, and they made it > very clear that they wanted a plain ASCII file. I would like a word processor to be able to read in lots and lots and lots of other software's formats; being able to save in those formats would be another big plus in my book. I wrote a book about two years' ago on modems and solicited input from folks and ended up with a pile of diskettes containing documents/research/etc saved in formats ranging from WordPerfect to uSoft Word to PFS:Write..!! It would have been nice to load the disks without having to convert them first[*]. On the subject of converting word processing documents, I bought the program Word For Word (about $50) and was *very* impressed with it. WFW converts between almost every popular DOS format you can think of and even preserves the underlines, bold text, centering, etc. (Appologies if this has already been discussed to death). Hmmmmm...I guess most publishers don't want text in troff/nroff format. ;-) -- --Jim Kimble, jkimble@bally.bally.com Yet Another UNIX Insultant sun!unislc!jkimble "ALPO is 99 cents a can. That's over SEVEN dog dollars!"