Re: xy-Wordperfect conversion filter

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Paul,

That's right. I use WP61 for things that XY 3.55 won't do easily, like
Windows fonts, tables and columns. I convert between WP and XY all the time.

However, I usually convert to ASCII rather than XyWrite. Conversion is
never perfect, and I want to control it. I hate getting codes with margins
of 1.067 or something. I try to use simple XyWrite formats anyway.

The best thing for me about the WP61 conversion is that I can set up tables
in WP61 and convert them to XY 3.55 tables, which I never bothered with
much before.

Norman

At 06:47 PM 12/15/02 +0000, Paul Breeze wrote:
>
>This may be of interest. While searching for a way of converting from
XY4 to other formats I
>found and installed a copy of Wordperfect 6.1. It turns out that the
software comes with a
>conversion from XY 3.55, 3.56 and 4. The conversion filter is not
automatically installed and you
>have to wade through the custom installation routine, then select it
manually, but it seems to be a
>better conversion that that with the W4W filters. I found that it was
able to pick up two sets of
>footnotes, one configured as an endnote, which none of the other filters
were able to do. All the
>W4W filters I have tried have turned these into one or the other. The
filter does get confused by
>some formatting - I had to remove the formatting for the footnotes,
otherwise it hung - but it
>seems a useful tool to me. Wordperfect will then provide a good
conversion to Word 6.0.
>
>Paul Breeze

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