Dear Carl
I do already have the obvious conversion filter in the form of Notabene
9 which will directly read the files produced by my version of XY4 that
supports CP1252. Since I use 64-bit Windows 7 I need to run NB9 from
Windows XP in a virtual machine but it reasonably satisfactory.
(Incidentally I find this to be the most XY4 and U2 friendly version of
Notabene.)
In fact, for most of the work I am likely to do, the RTF routine in U2
will probably be perfectly adequate. It is only the perfectionist in me
that hankers for a complete solution within XY4.
Best wishes
Paul
On 31/08/2019 22:05, Carl Distefano wrote:
Reply to note from "Paul Breeze"
(Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC) Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:27:02 +0100
Paul,
The only slight niggle now is translating to a windows format such
as RTF when there is XY4 formatting to deal with too. I have been
exploring the XYWWWEB.U2 RTF conversion routine. So far as I can
tell it is limited to a subset of the 437 code page (up to about
187, I think). I am guessing here, but I assume this is based on
the old filters that shipped with XY4. It would be nice to find a
complete CP1252 conversion but I imagine that is impossible -- or
at least it will cost money. Was there ever a 850 code page
version?
Yes, U2 uses Xy4's WfW conversion filters. If there is anything more
recent that converts XyWrite-like formatting to RTF, I would imagine
it's whatever comes with Nota Bene for Windows, which of course costs
money. And I am at a disadvantage to help here as I've never used
Ansified XyWrite.
I know that Edward has written a suite of conversion filters for
WordPerfect-DOS files. Maybe he could provide a pointer or two. Edward?