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From: young@ditsyda.oz (Steven Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: reading MS Word from SuperCard
Message-ID: <2438@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 1 Feb 90 05:17:41 GMT
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in article <55550@srcsip.UUCP>, thompson@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Thompson) says:
> Does anyone know of a way to read text documents created in MS Word in
> SuperCard.  I want to be able to use all the formatting commands already in
> the documents, such as bold, underline, fonts, and such.  Therefore, I do
> not want to output the document as ASCII text for use as I lose all the
> goodies.  Any help would be very much appreciated. TIA

My suggestion is to output the MS Word documents as RTF Interchange format.
RTF is a text format with the formatting commands included as text in 
parentheses.  There is obviously a specification for the RTF format (which, I
understand, is used by MS products to allow porting of files between
applications which don't have other converting facilities) but I don't have it.
This text file though is possibly more parsable than other formats.

I have been working with a hypercard system which outputs RTF format within
its reporting facility, and this then is readily used by MS Word to give
a document which is formatted as desired.

Cheers,  Steven Young.