Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ditsyda!muller
From: muller@ditsyda.oz (Carl Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MacWrite format(where can I get technote #12?)
Keywords: MacWrite,TechNotes,Help
Message-ID: <749@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 5 Jan 89 06:47:05 GMT
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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Help! Where can I get information on the disk format MacWrite uses?
I think it is in TechNote #12; how can I get this without waiting
months for the Apple beaurocracy to ponder my request? Are TechNotes
archived 'somewhere', or do any of you have this helpful information?
A previous poster asked for quickdraw internal formats - these are
given in TechNote #21 (I have the index, but not the interesting
documents themselves!) It would seem to be useful for netters to
know how to get documentation.

Please email to me at muller@ditsyda.oz and I will summarise to the
net. (Apple says it distributes to bulletin boards etc. without
copyright restrictions).

I am trying to write a bibliography system in HyperCard for the mac+
with external functions in MPW C, and I need to be able to output
text in bold, italic etc. for citations. TEXT files do not have this
capability and MS Word format made me go weak at the knees, so I am
hoping there is some simple format (perhaps MacWrite) which will let
me output files with special styles.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Carl Muller, CSIRO Department of Information Technology, Sydney.

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