Re: Attachments and HTML (was Re: XP & malware)

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I have been using NB to edit the later chapters of my book.
When each is in nearly final form, needing only tiny changes and
proofing, I export them as RTF and take them into (ugh) Word. The
translation part goes well.


Dear Jordan


I've just returned and haven't been following this thread but I use NB
exclusively now and convert into RTF regularly.  For me that has
worked well although there can be hiccups if there are stray NB/Xy
embedded instructions.  Then it becomes a matter of finding and
eliminating them.  I export large files containing tables and
footnotes without difficulty.  Is that of any help?


Best wishes


Paul


On 25/05/2012 17:18, J R FOX wrote:

Thanks for that clarification,
Carl.


I'm still hoping that you or another Nota Bene user has a

response to my query about how good the built-in NB conversion

facility may be.  (Unless I'm mistaken that there *is* one.)

I'm not on the NB list, as yet.




   Jordan




--- On Thu, 5/24/12, Carl Distefano 
wrote:


Reply to note from J R
FOX

Thu, 24 May 2012

12:55:02 -0700 (PDT)


Attachments are permitted on the XyWrite list; there is a

5MB limit on

message size (the smaller, the better, needless to say).

Note that

attached files are not preserved in the Freelists.org

Web-based

archive (links to the attachments appear below the archived

message,

but they go dead), but attached files are preserved, and

images are

visible, on the XySearch archive (a very nice feature).

Compare these

two versions of the same archived message from 10 November

2011:


http://www.freelists.org/post/xywrite/running-Xy-on-a-Mac,18; eudora="autourl">http://www.freelists.org/post/xywrite/running-Xy-on-a-Mac,18

(dead "PNG image" links)


http://tinyurl.com/xysearch/2011/msg00544.htm; eudora="autourl">http://tinyurl.com/xysearch/2011/msg00544.htm

(attached images displayed)


... just as we are not supposed to
post here using

HTML formatting, with fonts, sizes of print and
the
like.


I've given up reminding people about this -- and there are

chronic

violators -- but, yes, plain text is still the gold

standard. I, for

one, read my list messages in XyWrite, and HTML requires an

extra

step, whether stripping out the tags, or viewing the message

in a

browser, or just slogging through the message, tags and all.

It's a

pain. (We've enabled a list option to "humanize" HTML

attachments,

i.e., convert them to plain text, but it has no effect on

inline

HTML.)


--

Carl Distefano

cld@xxxxxxxx