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From: rhone@ubc-csgrads.uucp (Brock Rhone)
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Subject: Re: HyperCard Experts: Some Advise Please
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Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 14:00:47 EST
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In article <2274@im4u.UUCP> Paul Suhler (suhler@im4u.UUCP) at the
U of Texas writes:
<Is it possible to generate a full-blown MacWrite or Word document from
<HyperCard, assuming that you knew the appropriate format?  I just wanted
<to insert italicization, but couldn't figure it out  by looking at Word
<documents with just FEDIT.

I was wondering about this myself, for the same application as it turns
out.  If you have Word 3.01, then there is an easy solution. Word will
read and write files in RTF "Interchange" format which apparently
allows the encoding of all Word's formatting in an ASCII text file.
The code for italics is {\i words in italics}.  An RTF file has a
substantial header, but including that is simple.

As an example, a Word document (normal format) looking like this:
---
this is an italic word

this is a bold word
---
where the font is 12 point Geneva and the words 'italic' and 'bold' are
in italics and boldface, respectively, produces the following text file
when saved in RTF format:
---
{\rtf0\mac {\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss Chicago;}{\f3\fswiss Geneva;}{\f4\fmodern
 Monaco;}{\f13\fnil Zapf Dingbats;}{\f15\fnil N Helvetica Narrow;}{\f16\f
nil Palatino;}{\f21\fswiss Helvetica;}{\f22\fmodern Courier;}{\f23\ftech
 Symbol;}}{\stylesheet{
\sbasedon222\snext0 Normal;}{\s1\li720\sb120 \b\f20\fs36 \sbasedon0
\snext0 2;}}\margr1080\margb1080\widowctrl\ftnbj\ftnrestart\pgnstart0 
\sectd \linemod0\linex0\cols1\colsx0\endnhere 
\pard\plain this is an {\i italic} word\par 
\par 
and this is a {\b bold} word\par 
\par 
}
---

So, this would appear to allow HyperCard (or anything else that can
produce text files) to produce "full-blown" MS-Word documents, with
full access to fonts, style sheets, etc.
Great stuff!

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