Re: Conversion to/from MS Word

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T.Baehr:
>processor. Try doing a save-as from Xy to WordPerfect 4.2 and see if your
>colleague can convert the file into Word. WPerf seems to preserve a lot of Xy
>information, sometimes even including fonts. Might work in the other direction

Alas, no. All conversion programs seem pretty stupid, including the
xy -> wp -> ms turd route. Not even as simple information as 
or  is understood.

Maybe some Word literate person could improve on Tim Olsons "XYwrite.dot"
Word macro? Even in the limited version it exists now it seems to
work better than the commercial software.

--Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
--"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the -if he-
--if 'is' means is and never has been that is not -- that is one thing.
--If it means there is none, that was...true." Bill Clinton, 8/17/98