On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 22:38, Michael Lake wrote: > > I get lots of M$ Word files for the Royal Society of NSW Journal that > I edit and typeset. I use SO5.2 but find that some tables don't get > converted properly and often "smart quotes" will become ^W. I have to > be particularly careful in editing not to miss anything. There are > often other problems with largish Word docs, maybe because the Word > format itself in those docs has problems after so much editing in Word. > The conversion are a major headache for me and cost me much time.
Open office, (star office 6) has solved a lot of these issues. > Yes it is. It's the 21st century, we have had word processors for yonks > and there is still no stable open document exchange standard that is widely > used (SGML could have been it but it aint). I NEED one, we all need one > but consumers are too blinkered to see that they need to demand one. Open Office, has defined an XML based document format. The files are simply zipped xml. By the way they are a LOT smaller than word files. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
