TextMaker?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Frame can give out text only. Even RFT. What I would really like is an
import that would 'simply' maintain tags for items. That is, whatever the
tag is in the old system is, it has a name. In the new system, just make
tags (paragraph properties, whatever the new system calls the gadgets) and
give it the same name. I do not care if the properties of the tags are
used. Just keep the name. Then I can go and define what the different tags
are in the new system, according to the new system's view of the universe.
However (and here is the biggie) I do not need to go and reassign tags to
all text/paragraphs. This in itself would be a huge time saver.

StarOffice had a MIF (FrameMaker Interchange Format) filter. However (and
this struck me as unusually odd), it only took the text. All Maker tags
were ignored. Duh. Can you say 'text import'. The same things (tags
as a concept) exist in SO/OO. But they were dropped by the input filter. I
was going to go from Maker-> SO -> OO. Well, the docs went nowhere. I also
decided to not buy SO anymore.

I would try again if the FrameMaker filter worked.

Maybe this is where I figure out OO's XML and do my own conversion from
MIF. In my 'spare time'. (Quick check to see if wife is looking over
shoulder...)

On Sun, 25 May 2003 15:26:27 -0400
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 25 May 2003 15:11 pm, dep wrote:
> > begin  Roger Oberholtzer's  quote:
> > | What I need (NEED!) is something to get all my FrameMaker docs into
> > | something like this. It is all the links (references, indexes, all
> > | that stuff that you want for books).
> >
> > if you are willing to endure one-time hell and can somehow get the
> > stuff into word format, you might be able to import it if not
> > painlessly then < painlessly than typing it all in by hand. for
> > complex filters, word is about all textmaker provides.
> 
> I did notice that Textmaker has an input filetype that is something like
> 'extract all text from <any> file'.  This is a reasonable job of getting
> the text out of a .WPS file (which TM doesn't handle).  Might have some 
> application for doing other > painlessly conversions.
> 
> 
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Roger Oberholtzer
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