I hesitate to even proffer this workaround, because Jon has got to find
out what is skew-whiff in his system.
Patricia, thank you for your workaround. Although it didn't work, it led me to the solution anyway.
What I have been doing already demands fewer keystrokes. I open the XY file in Wordpad, change the font (Courier) to Times Roman and have Wordpad save it as .rtf.
But your routine did make me look again at my filters to doublecheck the path. They were all listed in the right place, but just for the heck of it I reinstalled them from xywrite.com. Something must !
have been
corrupted--at least the .rtf filter-- because Carl's new SA/RTF frame now works like a breeze on my XP setup .
Except...well, the font it gives the resultant .rtf file is the unbeautiful MS Serif in a sickly green-tinged black. There's no formatting in the file itself, just text, so presumably the W4W conversion filter is picking up some default font and format.
I'm writing in Draft mode with (from Properties) Raster fonts at 10 x18. In SETTINGS.DFL, the default font is standard. Is there a setting to be changed in SETTINGS.DFL or in my spiffy new POSTGHST.PRN (the only installed printer) that would make the SA/RTF output Times Roman? Or something I can change in the formatting of the converted file? It has been a decade or more since I printed from XY, so I'm beyond rusty on what information is where.
Here's what looks like formatting from the top of the converted .rtf file. I see Tms Rmn there, just beg!
ging to
be activated.
{\rtf1\ansi \deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0\froman Tms Rmn;}
{\f1\fswiss Helv;}{\f2\fmodern Courier;}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue127;\red0\green127\blue0;\red0\green127\blue127;\red127\green0\blue0;\red127\green0\blue127;\red127\green127\blue0;\red127\green127\blue127;\red192\green192\blue192;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue0;\red0\green255\blue255;\red255\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green255\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;}\linex0 \sbknone
\margl1440 \margr1440 \margt1440 \margb1440 \plain \margb1440 \margt1440 \pard \sl280
This SA/RTF was tangential to the CLIP problem with which I have bedeviled Robert. I hadn't realized the U2 frame existed. But now the perfect customization looms: something that combines SA/RTF (with a Times Roman font fix) plus RENaming the .rtf file on a single key.
Of course, someone already did it: Xysearch revealed Tim Baehr's rtfout.pgm.
http://xywrite.org/msg01978.htmI put in what looked like the correct variables:
(20=w4w19t; 21=V0)
but nothing happens.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Jon Pareles