Re: Document conversion & XW.KBD

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Nathan:
AMEN!! I have not been able to use the XYWIN
filter to import MS WORD documents I receive all
the time. I use NOTEPAD or Word Viewer and then
cut into small pieces to the clipboard to paste to
XYWin. Tedious BUT IT WORKS! I have begun using
NB to past the complete document then open it in
XYWin.
 A comment that might be of help - I have setup
to use XW.KBD (which I have extensively modified
to use CTRL keys to activate XPL programs) in NB
(via an XWSTART.INI that is employed by both
XWSTART.INT and NBSTART.INT). It given me the
function keys (e.g. F5 - not F9) and commands I'm
used to.
Dick Giering

Nathan Sivin wrote:
>
> I don't see what is wrong with the conversion filters that come
> with XY4. I have used most of the popular word processors. The
> XYDOS conversion works unproblematically for me, and is the only
> one known to me that will keep footnotes and automatically
> deposit them at the end of the file with links to the
> superscripts. The XYWin filters tend to give protection failures
> when I try to use them, but there are workarounds that, I
> believe, are explained on the XYWWW web site. In any case, I
> routinely depend on XY's conversion filters rather than those of
> the other program.
>
> When I want to store XY files in a form that many other
> applications can read, I choose either HTML or RTF. The latter
> preserves almost all of the more elaborate formatting, but the
> former can be read by almost anything, particularly web browsers.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Nathan Sivin
> History and Sociology of Science
> University of Pennsylvania
> Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
> (215) 898-7454
> nsivin@xxxxxxxx