Re: text to cmd line/ascii to ansi/.Mac-Win blues

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Hi:
 With respect to the characters that don't exist between the two sets,
I know of nothing to do. For the others, at least those I use all the
time, I made up two XPL programs that converts from one to the other
(each way). Using the insert|other|special Characters opption from the
menu line I obtain the XY characters for those I use and then, for the
other set (I can never remember which is which, I only know XY uses one
and NB uses the other) I use the same options from NB to get the
equivalent. I also have the conversion from each to the HTML "ampersand
command strings".
 I hope this helps
Dick Giering

"Yo Intl. YK" wrote:
>
> At 10:28 PM 11/5/01 -0500, Bill Troop wrote:
> >2. What is a foolproof method of complete conversion
> >from XyWrite ASCII to Win ANSI and back?
>
> I wonder if there IS a foolproof conversion, considering that some
> characters do not EXIST in the other set.
> The two obvious ways (which you surely know) are a) to make a
> search/replace list yourself, and b) use a conversion utility (lots of free
> programs that do this, how about the excellent "NoteTab" editor for example?).
>
> >3. Any advice about conversion from MacASCII to
> >Win ANSI or DOS Ascii? Keeping in mind that the
> >text makes use of Mac ASCII characters like fi and
> >fl which must be translated into something in Windows/DOS
>
> Same as above. MacLink is probably the best conversion utility, but plenty
> of Mac programs allow to save in DOS text format. But you still run into
> characters that don't match.
>
> >(the eventual idea being to deconstruct fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl
> >into their constituent letters for editing purposes).
>
> Sounds like you'll have to mess with a printer file...
>
> >of to make numerous corrections which were not
> >reflected in the XyWrite files, as I made them directly
> >in Pagemaker. Oh, woe! What stupidity!
>
> Ouch...
>
> >search/replaces, but am not sure that the weird graphics
> >characters that come up for fi/fl, for instance, will
> >translate properly.
>
> Make a list of them, print them out, and check the DOS equivalent.
> If you give me a fax number, I can fax you a side-by-side list of Mac
> ASCII/DOS ASCII.
>
> -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo