Re: CIA /triangles/nothing???

[m LESLIE319@xxxxxxxx]

On 18-OCT-1995 12:35:38.5 xywrite said to LESLIE319
  >On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Harmon F Seaver wrote:
  ≫  Perhaps you should get in touch with Herb Tyson -- he has done a
  >lot of > customization of Describe --- and has given up on XY, after
  >being the XY > guru for years. Think he did a book on Describe too,
  >but I haven't seen it. >
  >Talked to him this morning. He's a big DeScribe fan, ut doesn't have
  >a solution, since the program uses the same lousy filers for conversion
  >that XyWrite uses. In XyWRite, I only use TYF to get straight ASCII.
  >But it's a very nice wp...fast, stable.

  Those conversion filters are far from lousy. Word for Word
is actually an incredibly well thought out, efficient, well supported product.
The problem is, XyWrite's formatting continues until replaced by
another triangle; since other programs do not have this feature,
the Word for Word filters deliberately build in redundancies.
Here's a workaround I use all the time. Replace all the mode
commands temporarily with, say, ascii 3-7, for italics, bold,
superscripts, subscripts and normals. Then replace the open
chevron, wildcard string (alt+shift+w) and close chevron with
nothing. This gets rid of all the triangles. Then restore the
mode commands. All triangles will then be gone, and you can
insert your own margins, indents, etc. etc. etc.

The program would look something like this (using here, two angle
brackets to represent the chevrons and numbers to represent the
ASCII characters
). BC ci /≪MDIT≫/3/XC BC . . . ci /≪WW≫//XC BC . . . ci
/3/≪MDIT≫/XC
BC.

--Leslie--
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