Having used to Xywrite to create numerous Web pages that a UNIX server sends out to the world and which I had to edit occasionally using either pico or vi, I have no problems with ^Zs or odd LFs or CRs since I have (1) modified the strip, ascii and email printer files and (2) used Kermit to strip any ^Zs at the end of the file. The ascii, strip and email printer files shipped with Xywrite 4 (and probably 3) have errors that introduce extraneous LFs into the files. To correct that shortcoming, simply manually clear what was originally after the LE< (line ending) and PE< (paragraph ending) commands in the the printer file and enter what you want to have appear after each line or paragraph. In the example below, I have indicate CRLF (carriage return line feed combinations), but one could easily include abefore or after the CRLF combinations to help HTMLify an existing document. Another necessary change involves the vertical spacing table. Be sure that VU=1,1,100 and VS:1. But be doubly sure that a blank line (no spaces, null characters, LF or CR symbols, other special characters, etc.) follows the VS:1 command. For example, ; PRINTER INFORMATION ; LE< <- add the # of CRLF combinations wanted at each line end (0 to ?) PE< <- add the # of CRLF combinations wanted at each paragraph end (1, 2, ?) FB< FE< PG< ; ; VERTICAL SPACING TABLE ; VU=1,1,100 VS:1 ; End of example One can easily imagine setting up the mode commands, etc. to HMTLify an already formatted document and design a keyboard to help add HTML tags. I could modify my routinues that transform Xywrite tables to tab-delimited data or vice versa to transform Xywrite tables to HTML tables. I was hoping that the HTML addition to MS Word 6 for Windows would magically convert existing Word 6 documents to HTML. Ha! It did a great job of converting acute accented letters. But it did not convert inverted question marks or exclamation marks to ¿ or ¡. It disappeared included images. It just
existing tables and often mangled the data and headings. So I had to load the resulting HTML file into Xywrite and manually recreate the tables and add the image references. Good luck in finding a word processing that would HTMLify an existing document as well as would Xywrite with a little modification. Ed Plummer _________________________________________________________________ Intricate Decisions P.O. Box 55661 Decision Support Riverside, CA 92517 on Human Issues and Markets in a Culturally Diverse, Tel: 909/ 274-9829 Information-Rich and Fax: 909/ 787-5409 Computer-Assisted Email: oeplummer@xxxxxxxx World orlay.plummer@xxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________________