Re: MS-Word saves in XY4?

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> Unclear which direction you want to go--is it Xy to Word or Word to Xy?
> Your first sentence implies Xy to Word, but your last sounds like
> opening a Word file in Xy.

  XY to Word.

>
> At any rate, have you tried NotaBene as an intermediary? I just opened a
> Word .doc file in it, and it did nicely with the footnotes, running
> header, block quotes, and subheads.
>

   I wouldn't mind using NB instead of XY, actually, from what I've
seen of it it looks nice, but $250 for an upgrade price for a word
processor that doesn't use the opendocument format is a bit much. The NB
people don't seem to have much of a grasp on the future either, i.e., no
plans for xml, let alone Macs or linux. In fact, AFAICS, it isn't even a
win32 app, still a win16. I *do* like the IBID and other features tho,
and if I had a spare $250 to blow, might go for it.


> I'm using NB 8.
>
>>  Has anyone developed a better filter or whatever to save xy4 files as
>> word docs? The stock one doesn't seem to work very well at all. I can
>> import just about any flavor of word doc into openoffice with pretty
>> good results, sometimes the formatting is a bit off, but with the xy4
>> "word.doc" it just shows up as garbage mixed with the text.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harmon Seaver
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>


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Harmon Seaver