thank you for looking into this! isn't it nuts how differently all those programs treated the supposedly interchange format? i fixed all the errors by hand a few days ago. thanks for your offer of help. aaron.
so said [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 1.3K on Thu, Nov 02, 2006: > 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] > > \\ aaron brick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://www.lithic.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
