Re: Xy-Word Conversion

[Alison Tartt akt@xxxxxxxx]

Your right, Tom. The process isn't suited for all cases.

However, the publishers I work with use designers who format the final book
based on my text coding ( for first-level heads, etc.). So in these
situations the simplest files are preferable and Word's Styles feature is
actually of no use, if not a nuisance, especially since many book
manuscripts are excessively or inconsistently formatted.

Alison Tartt

At 01:29 PM 3/8/03 -0500, you wrote:
>** Reply to message from Alison Tartt  on Sat, 08 Mar 2003
>09:58:02 -0600
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>> When publishers give me Word files and of course expect to get Word files
>> back, I simply use WordPort so I can do all my work in XyWrite (III+). No
>> one is the wiser. Furthermore, the conversion process reveals garbage that
>> can be cleaned up or deleted.
>
>That assumes that the original Word file was not built with styles; if it
was,
>someone's going to have to re-style it when they get it back from you.
>
>
>Tom Hawley
>New York
>tjh@xxxxxxxx
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