aaron brick wrote: > it took about an hour to fix all the accents and dashes. they were distorted > in really strange ways - like one chinese character would replace ã > (a-tilde) consistently for a page, then on the next page there'd be a > different one. > > eventually i cut-and-pasted sections from the RTF in the bibliography, which > seemed to be the location of the syntax error. this was tedious but did save > some retyping as the end was truncated. > > i have now saved the document as ODT. thanks dotan and keith for your help. > > aaron. > >
Would you like the doc back in original condition (with minor font errors in the bibliography)? The document wouldn't open in OOo 2.0.2 (linux) either. Nor would it open in MS Word (97) or OOo 2.0.3 (Windows), and of course as you noticed OOo 2.0.4 (linux). However it _did_ open in MS Wordpad with all of the proper font acents etc intact. Saved it to a MS Word file and a new RTF file; opened in OOo and saved it to .odt. OOo ODT file is 5.7MB (saved from OOo 2.0.2 - linux) New RTF file is 19.4MB (saved from Wordpad) New RTF file is 19.2MB (saved from OOo 2.0.4 - linux) New DOC file is 9.6MB (Saved from MS Word 97) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
