Re: Translating XyWin to Word or WordStar

[Jonathan Probber jprobber@xxxxxxxx]

Corel WordPerfect 8 directly imports Xy
3.56 and (I think) XyDos 4.0 files.
Does a fairly good job saving embedded
formatting, too. WP Suite 8 is also
substantially cheaper than MS Office...

Jon

At 01:55 PM 6/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:21:23 +0000,
Michael P. Kube-McDowell wrote:
>
>>Help!
>>
>>I've just finished another manuscript
(a whopper--680 pages) using
>>XyWin 4.11, and am now facing the
same old same old, two
>>years further into obsolescence
oblivion--namely, problems with
>>exporting the files to a word
processor used by someone other than
>>the stalwart members of this list.

>>
>>In particular, it's highly desirable
that I be able to export to
>>MS Word format for my agent and/or
WordStar for my
>>collaborator. (My publisher's
typesetting bureau can still cope with
>>XyWrite files, which is a blessing.)
>
>IMHO the best way to get a Xy file
ready for someone who can't read a
>plain text file and has to use MS Word
is to load it up in MS Word and
>then save it. Of course you need MS
Word for this -- but if I were in
>your shoes I'd just take the plunge.
It's actually quite powerful and
>you might find it useful down the
road. You could probably also find
>an old version that'd suffice at an
online auction or someplace like
>that.
>
>>The native XyWin W4W44T.DLL output
filter for WinWord (09-02-93,
>>89840 bytes) only goes up to Version
2.0. I exported one of my
>>chapters using it, then peeked at the
chapter with Lotus Magellan and
>>WordPad (I don't have Word available
on any system here). Both showed
>>the same thing--a badly corrupted
text with extra spaces inserted at
>>seemingly random intervals (from
every tenth character or so to every
>>25th character or so).
>
>My main point: it may be corrupt but
I'm not sure you can really expect
>either Magellan or WordPad to make
sense of a Word file. In fact I'm
>pretty sure even a good Word file
would look something like you
>describe. It's just a dirty
application! If you don't think it's
>worth buying Word to do the job, send
a few pages of it to the guy and
>see if he can read it.
>
>Rafe T.
>raphaelt@xxxxxxxx
>http://www.ray-field.com
>
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