On 7/22/2019 11:50 AM, Roger Shuttleworth wrote:
Lynne - I have made conversion tables before, so that is not a
problem. Thanks for the tip about not needing a DTD. My Word docs (not
written by me) are all four pages long, and the style usage is
probably about 80%. I agree that there will be a lot of cleanup to do
first, but I can assemble dozens of files at once into a single file
and hopefully use Find/Replace and/or VBA to handle a lot of it, then
split the files up again later.
Roger,
If you go with FM, you can open the Word docs in FM and then use the
Create and Apply Formats command to make sure that every distinct pgf
format has a different name. For example, if two pgfs are both tagged
Xyz but their paragraph properties don't exactly match, this command
would leave the first one as is, but change the tag of the second one to
Xyz1 and make an entry for Xyz1. This retagging is very useful if the
appearance difference is noticeable and a pain if it is something that
you don't care about. It does call your attention to all differences in
paragraph, character, and table formats. Once you've decided which
differences you want to preserve, you can map all the variants that
should be combined to the same element in your conversion table, or you
can do a global change of insignificant variants to the main form. Just
remember that the suffixes that Create and Apply Formats assigns are
likely to differ document to document.
--Lynne
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Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
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