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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RSG 4 vs Word 3.0x
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Date: 11 May 89 18:17:14 GMT
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>I am finally getting ready to put together the chapters of my dissertation,
>which have been written with a several different Mac word processing programs
>over the last 3 years, most recently MS Word 3.01. I was wondering if RSG 4.0
>might be the best way to put everything together. The main question is 
>whether RSG can read the style sheets already present in my Word files, or
>will I have to go through and redo all of the paragraph-level formatting?

RSG 4.0 doesn't read styles, it'll just load text. RSG 4.5 will read what
they call tagged text, but that's not reading in the styles, it's a hack and
I never use it because it's ugly (the only advantage is that you can export
stuff in tagged text to edit and re-import without losing all the
formatting). 

If the styles from Word are necessary, you'll need PageMaker. RSG 4.0 would
handle a long document fine, so would pagemaker. I had endless problems
trying to do long documents in RSG 4.5, however, so I can't recommend it.



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Bookends. What a wonderful thought.