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On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Martin Vermeer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Now that CVS is back up -- or at least communicating at more that 50 bytes
> a second -- I finally got made a patch. The code added allows wv to import
> an MS Word 2 document, and output it in legible form. It appears (based
> on what I have seen, half a dozen docs from all over the world) that
> Word 2 docs are quite a lot simpler structured, with a linear text layout,
> no OLE.
> 
> Of course nothing is perfect, and this outputs the text only in text form,
> without "properties" or even basic formatting such as paragraphs (<p> or
> \par). Doing that requires getting the FIB right (does anybody know the 
> FIB layout for Word 2?) and understanding what is happening on lines
> 188-399 of decode_simple.c (not very legible to an amateur :-( )
> 
> Any help or info would be appreciated.
> 

It's always good to have compatibility with as many formats as
possible.  We wouldn't want data to end up lost becuase of format
incompatibility.

Could you post some Word 2 documents so others of us can test this patch?

Thanks
           
                                sam th               
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                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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