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RE: Translating XyWin to Word or WordStar -Reply



Hi, Tom.

> Do you have a way of looking at each character in terms of its HEX nature. I
> use Xtree Gold (another relic of the DOS days) to look for strange
> characters in XyWrite. Some times that helps.

Magellan allows me to look at the original file as, among other
things, straight ASCII and hex. In neither case can I see either any
spaces nor any oddities in the locations where the spaces appear
after translation.

Best,

    Michael

> > Interesting, but in my case it must be something else, since I don't
> > use hyphenation at all--which is fairly standard for manuscript
> > format, I think.
> >
> > Strangely enough, though, I can now say that the extra spaces are a
> > non-random phenomenon--an export to RTF format produced a file with
> > extra spaces in exactly the same places. And yet my XyWrite file has
> > _nothing_ at those locations, even viewed in expanded mode.