On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
>
> > Hi Shoshannah,
> > The reason is that the teacher wants all the kids in the class to submit
> > material in the same format. The teacher does not have time or patience to
> > convert document formats for even two out of thirty-five kids in the
> > class.
>
> There is a conversion from RTF to word, but it is quite transparent.
>
> Frankly, there is no "ms-word" format. There are a bunch of
> (non-compatible) formats: word2, word6, word7(95), word8(97), word9(2000),
> word10(xp) and now there is a word11 (.net?).
>
Tzafrir, AFAIK the Word 6.0 and Word 95 used exactly the same format.
Likewise for Word97, Word2000 and Word XP. (albeit I think the treatment
of the Hebrew characters was incompatibility modified between 97 and
2000). I clearly remember that I could produce documents in Word2K and
read them in 97, and likewise from 95 to 6.0.
All the versions of Word I used had some Word-related quirks like
suddenly deciding to format something out of the blue. They take a long
time to produce something usable. As far as robustness is concerned, Word
6.0 was robust, Word 95 was very robust; Word 97 and 2000 were incredibly
non-robust. Word XP is suprisingly very robust again, but then it has very
little ground-breaking features, so I suppose Microsoft spent their time
on making it bug-free.
In any case, none of these were as good as WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS.
Lately of course I've been using LaTeX or DocBook/XML (depending on what I
want to do), and they are at least as good as WordPerfect for what I have
to do. And they are fully portable and non-proprietary.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> So Word is converting the RTF file just as it is converting a
> half-compatible word file.
>
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