Re: openoffice & xywrite?

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

  Yes, I was thinking this morning that maybe I'm looking at it all
wrong. Why try to transfer the entire document back and forth anyway?
Just write my stuff in xy, save it as text, then later reformat those
parts in OO when in linux and add them to the main piece.
  I was also thinking though, of printing them to a postscript printer
file in xy, and seeing if I can import that into OO. Or run a ps
translator on it.
  Also maybe will try running xy with dosemu in linux -- I used to do
that -- and see if I can just cut and paste between the two editors. I
did try that briefly but xy didn't want to run, something about keyboard
problems, apparantly in the dosemu setup.
  The nice thing about xy is that I can remap the keyboard to mimic OO
entirely, so it's not so confusing going back and forth.


Robert Holmgren wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Harmon Seaver  on
> Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:09:59 -0500
>
> Hi Harmon. Welcome back. I think you're just going to get
> obvious answers to your interoperability question. Obviously,
> you're going to have to use an intermediate file format, to get
> from XyWrite (or NBWin) to openoffice (the NB Word filter is
> acceptable, but I would use PostScript, because you can write
> your own filter for that natively in XyWrite -- if you know PS).
>
> However, there IS one direct method, and that's copy & paste.
> Don't laugh! Speaking for myself, what's attractive to me about
> XyWrite is that there virtually isn't any formatting (and darn
> little bloat when you do format, unlike XML), or rather
> formatting can be added later by a formatter (a.k.a. another
> word processor) -- I just use XyWrite to compose _words_, and to
> the (VERY limited!) extent that I need to create visual effects,
> the character set itself supplies most of what I need (e.g.
> spacebar, tab key, etc).
>
> So, even if you're a formatting nut, why not just avoid it
> entirely in XyWrite, and do all that in your final oo touch-up?
> No more problem. I mean, how much finished writing are you
> gonna do on a laptop battery, anyway?
>
> If you're interested, here's a schema for pasting from XyWrite:
> -- Use XPL to write DeFined text (or whole file) to a disk file
> -- Use Perl (or whatever) to read the file and put it on the
> Linux clipboard
>
> The disk file that you write with XPL could either be a simple
> copy of the text source, or you could use XyWrite to wrap the
> source in a .pl script that would run hands-off next time you
> boot Linux.
>
> Good luck.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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>
>


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Harmon Seaver