Andrew Stiller wrote:
On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote
>> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > > That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two completely > different standards for object embedding and data interchange between > applications.
Well, it would be possible using RTF, no? Works in other programs.
What, exactly, would interpret the RTF? Would it be editable once imported? If so, what would handle the editing?
These are not at all trivial questions.
-- David W. Fenton
I recently published a piece whose extensive preface had been created in a Windows word processor. The author made a PDF of it wh. he sent to me. I extracted the text from it, pasted it into half a dozen Finale text blocks, and edited it. Where's the problem?
The original problem was to get dot leaders and to get text lined up for a table of contents, so the left column (presumably the titles) could be left-aligned and the right column (presumably the page numbers) could be right-aligned, with dot leaders all lined up nice and neat.
I'm not sure why your client didn't just send you the original word processor file if you were going to copy and paste into Finale. Or even just include it in an e-mail message. Text is text is text. Until you want to do special alignment.
Which is what started this thread -- the original person wanted to encourage MakeMusic to include better text formatting capabilites. Copying text from one format, e.g. Word, into text blocks isn't a problem.
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