... None, because the graphical screen is there for print preview, and the text screen is very aware of spacing(*) even though it does not display the fonts or...
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Nov 4, 2010 7:06 am
... The emphasis was on whether this old dog should/ could have learned the new keyboard shortcuts when moving to Macs in 1993. What WP did give me, though,...
... No actual such challenge. I was just (or am, in Tips & Macros) recommending grouping keystroke assignments by function, as well as using easy-to-remember...
John, I do use mnemonics, though I have probably not been optimally systematic in setting up groupings. Connectix' Speed Doubler was nice, and its successor,...
Tom, I always liked the way Windows programs had one letter underlined in the menus, too. [Of course, if you were to try MS Word these days, you'd find that...
... I know that there was print preview, but I seem to recall (though vaguely, I admit), that it was somewhat quirky. Maybe I'm mis-remembering. Then we moved...
WPDOS's print preview was an absolutely exact representation of the layout of the printed page, with all the text and graphics exactly where it would appear in...
Thanks to the fact that WP 3.5e can save in Word 6.0 format, I am at a loss to understand why I actually NEED a "modern" word processor. Reading documents from...
... Would this discussion list exist is no one else felt the same way? 8-) ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The...
Word 2007's file format is apparently zipped XML. I might be able to figure out how to write an import filter for WP. I don't know XML very well, but...
I'd actually much appreciate if somebody would do a Word 97 through 2003 conversion filter. .Doc seems to be marginally more popular that .docx for the moment....
Word for Windows 2007 and 2010 won't open Word 6 files unless the user is expert enough and trusting enough to change Word's security settings. Word for Mac...
... You're not completely misremembering, Rick. Ed is right about WP/DOS 5 (and its functional siblings on other platforms of that era) had perfect placement...
A few days ago, a new version of the libwpd converter program was released, but, as far as I can tell, only in source code. I tried to compile it into...
I've now managed to compile the binaries of libwpd for OS X, but it would be very good to have standalone binaries like the ones that Smokey Ardisson prepared...
A new version has been released of the open-source "libwpd" software that converts WP documents into other formats. This is the software used by...
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Geoff Gilbert
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Nov 23, 2010 6:49 am
Thanks so much Geoff Geoff Gilbert Professor of Law Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Refugee Law School of Law and Human Rights Centre University of...
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Geoff Gilbert
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Nov 23, 2010 10:39 am
Edward It doesn't do footnotes. Converting to Word 6 from within WP does a better job. Excellent for simpler files. Geoff Geoff Gilbert Professor of Law ...
(Corrected version of an earlier message, now deleted from the forum:) That's because the libwpd software doesn't support a direct WP -> RTF conversion. Libwpd...
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Geoff Gilbert
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Nov 23, 2010 8:04 pm
Dear Edward I am usually working in WPMac for my academic writings. The Word6 Converter is not too bad for converting those files - some formatting is lost...
Geoff, Whew! That's a difficult task. Is there any program at all that successfully preserves footnote cross-referencing in a WPMac file? If you need to send...
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Geoff Gilbert
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Nov 23, 2010 9:55 pm
Dear Edward In the early 1990s when I was using WPDos 5.1, a colleague wrote a WP macro that converted the cross-reference into the plain text number (after...
The converter script works great. One suggestion though. Because it's a script and not an application you cannot set it as the default application to open all...
Actually, Smokey Ardisson on this forum figured out how to accomplish exactly that, and I borrowed (i.e. stole) his method for my standalone SheepShaver/WPMac...
That would need to be done with a WPMac macro. It couldn't be done after the file had been converted to something else. I imagine that some of the macro...
I briefly uploaded a new version that did what you suggest here, but it turned out to have problems, so I restored the older version. I'll try to get the newer...
OK, I think I have the installer working at last for a new version that does what you asked for in the message below. The installer also adds Gero Hermann's...
I've now tested and posted a new version of the WPD to RTF Converter script, based ultimately on Smokey Ardisson's excellent script that converted WPD files to...
