Re: Re.: MS-Word

[Russell Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:10:21PM +0100, flash wrote:
I can't strongly recommend, for people going to/from word using any ASCII 
mostly based format to look at Pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ and 
examining Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) or Multi Markdown or 
some other ASCII format as a intermediate format.

I think if i were still using xywrite i would definitely look at these!

hope this helps!

Russ
> I find the save-as (export) functions of MS-Word impossibly wordy.
> Saving an MS-Word document as RTF, XML, or HTML generates such a flood
> of useless formatting code that I usually just save-as plain text and
> do all my formatting in Xy instead.
>
> The other direction, from Xy to MS-Word is easier. One can replace the
> Xy formatting (bold, italic, indent, etc.) fairly easily with HTML
> tags (a few strategic save-gets will pre-off-load much of this work),
> and a final brush-up with ChangeVerify to clean up the last few bits
> will accomplish this with little fuss. MS-Word can then import HTML
> files and re-format them for MS-Word output. Be prepared for massive
> file size bloat.
>
> Removing the buzzers and bells from MS-Word ... One can simplify the
> GUI by turning off the "ribbon" and hiding the tool bar (see
> screenshots), but switching off the code running in the background is
> not on the menu.
>