Re: Xydos to Quark?

[Sheldon Factor sheldon@xxxxxxxx]

A few years back I managed a desktop publishing operation that output
4-5000 pages a year in Quark 3.2 using XYWrite 3+ input. The operation
was totally PC.

Your solution might lie in pre-tagging the XYWrite file with Quark tags
(XTG) and naming the file with the .XTG extension. We had a series of
XYWrite save-gets that took XYWrite codes (e.g. , ) and
replaced them with Quark tags. The Quark version 3 owners manual lists
these
tags in its appendix.

All that was necessary to import the files into Quark was to choose
"Xpress
Tags (*.XTG)" in the "Get Text" menu item.

Sheldon Factor

Judith Davidsen wrote:
>
> A major client has just decided that I have to submit my
> materials in Word for Mac, since, they claim, when they send
> my Xydos files to Quark, such rudimentary things as
> quotation marks, apostrophes and dashes disappear. This is
> all straight text, no tables, no fancy formatting.
>
> I have to discuss this with the client's tech person on
> Monday, but will have very little time between now and then
> to search the Xy archives and get my teeth into researching
> a solution.
>
> If fellow xywriters who have encountered Xydos-Quark
> problems can, without too much trouble, suggest (A)
> solutions to the problem and/or (B) discussion points for me
> to use with the tech person, I will be most grateful.
>
> I use Xydos 4.018 and Win98 v4.10 1998.
>
> [] Can anything be done to get Xy files into Quark?
>
> [] Can Xydos files be converted into Word? The Word that
> came with my computer is so outrageously horrible that I
> will not allow it space on my hard drive, but if I buy a
> new, theoretically usable, Word for PC can I convert Xydos
> files to it without losing anything? From there, they tell
> me, I can save as Word for Mac, and transmit to the client.
>
> The first chance I get I will start combing the archives,
> but hope I will get some responses from the list too.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Judith Davidsen