On 10-Oct-97 C.L. Daugaard wrote: >Status: > >I thought all that was being asked for was a program to read WP files, >not write them. Even "M$" makes available a program to read MS Word >files. > >C.L. Daugaard >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It depends what you want to include in "read" and "WordPerfect files". If you know the file will contain only text requiring ASCII characters, then even "strings WPfile" will give it to you, admittedly in a form requiring editing before it looks decent. But once it may contain WP "specials" (other charsets, styles, figures, equations, tables ... ) then a non-WP solution is at best rough and ready. The same applies to MS Word documents (why, even MS word is sometimes at best ropugh and ready for an MS Word document if it was prepared on different version). However, if you want to go down the "reader" road, then "wp2latex" could be tried, and adapted for other-than-latex (e.g. to output plain text if that is all that is required). It does a moderately good job on simple documents, and may be adequate for the occasional one-off job. There is a Linux port by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zachary brown) of the DOS version which is on ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/support/wp2latex and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/support/wp2latex-5_1 I can send a copy if required. However, I have yet to see a "reader" which does a clean job on a WordPerfect document. Similar remarks apply to MS Word "readers" ("word2x", "catdoc" etc). Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Oct-97 Time: 01:14:01 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
