Re: RTF conversion and

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 It must have something to do with the Macintosh, because I
 regularly convert XY4 files to RTF files so that they can
 be read in MSWord, and I never have a problem. I use the
 Jumbo.U2 function sa/rtf, which produces a file called
 XY42RTF.RTF. I rename this file to whatever, and draw it
 into MSWord, and then save it as a standard MSWord file. I've
 never seen the problem you are describing.

 M.W. Poirier

 P.S.: The only thing is have do, after this conversion, is
 format the footnotes to fit the MSWord page format. It is
 usually just a question of resetting the margins.

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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Caballero wrote:
>
> For the first time, I've had a request from an editor to convert my
> XyWrite file to RTF. I wrote the text in XY3, but took it into XY4 and
> made a few adjustments by hand, then did the conversion using the menus in
> XY4. The file was dandy and printed beautifully from XY4, so no problems
> there, of course. About the RTF converter, I was dubious, but I have to
> admit I'm not familiar with the RTF format.
>
> Because I'm a nice guy, I test new things before I inflict them on other
> people. To my amazement, when I took the converted file to a Macintosh
> and opened it in Word, the thing basically worked. Only one problem, and
> it's weird: everywhere that I had an  (indent paragraph, usually I
> use  for block quotations), Word has about 20 blank "pages" that
> can't be deleted. The block quotation has also vanished (the text resumes
> where the  command takes effect. Since this editor is anxious to
> have his RTF file, my instinct is to go back to my original XY4 file and
> simply delete all the  commands, perhaps tagging the quotations for
> indentation. (This bit of manual work isn't much for the editor to do for
> five block quotations within his preferred word processor.) I'm writing
> to find out if anyone knows about this problem or has invented a less
> resigned solution than mine. Given that the footnotes came through fine,
> a simple IP is an odd thing for the converter to flake out on, at least
> vis-a-vis Word.
>
> Yours,
> Carlo
>
> p.s. Word read the file same way under OS9 and OSX, in Word 5.0 and in
> whatever the latest OSX version for Mac is--same blank pages.
>
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> Carlo Caballero
> Assistant Professor
> College of Music, 301 UCB
> The University of Colorado
> Boulder, CO 80309 U.S.A.
>
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