-------- Original Message -------- From: web at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400
> Here is a question. > I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. > It is an Outline Text type of document. > > Using NoteTab Light, I get a "frame" that has the > Books listed and a "frame" with the Book's verses. > Click on the Book and it brings up its verses, not any > other part of the OTL file. > > In OOo, I read in the OTL file and it becomes one > continuous page, no outlines. > > Has anyone worked with an OTL file? > Is there a way to read in an Outlined Text document into > OOo and get the correct formated sections? > At 58,307 lines in the file, it is much easier to show > it in the "Outline" format, then one continuous page. > > it uses inline commands in the documents like; > > = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30 > > > > H="King James Bible" > > > > H=" Genesis" > > > Personally, I have never see such a document. > I wonder if it is a format that began it the DOS days > or an early word processing DOS Text format. > > I can send you directly the file and an image what it looks > like. Or I can send you the files plus NoteTab Light. > (you can download NoteTab Light from www.downloads.com) > > Windows NotePad does not show it. Neither does: > EmEditor, OpenOffice.org Write, and MS Word. > Only NoteTab Light so far. XP does not even associate > that file to NoteTab Light. I had to make the association. > I always try to read unknow file formats in that text editor > as my default option. > > I use OpenOffice.org for my "Office stuff", KompoZer for my "HTML stuff", > NoteTab Light for my "plain text stuff" like Cascading Style Sheets and > JavaScripts for web sites or just plain TXT files types. > > SO can anyone help? > Anyone used OTL files before? > Anyway to get OOo to have one "frame" show the Outline Headings > and another to show the text of that "outlined section"? > > Tim L. (web at work) > who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move. OTL is the file extension that Eric G.V. Fookes (Fookes Software) chose to identify the "OuTLine" feature he built into the NoteTab software. These are just plain text, with no embedded formatting codes in the true sense. Other than the presence of the first line in an OTL file and the equal sign, used as a tag by the NoteTab software, there is nothing special about these text files. In fact if you open one in any other plain text editor (eg. Windows Notepad), remove just the first line (eg." = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30") and save it, NoteTab will open it as it would any other plain text file, with no side panel. The side panel displaying the headings/"Books" is hard coded into NoteTab. So there is no reason why OOo, or any other software should display these files as anything other than plain text. Unless, for some reason, that other software is emulating NoteTab. I have a few ideas how something similar might be replicated in Writer and somebody (not me), with the necessary skills, could possibly even write an otl to odt converter. However, I don't see this as an award winning feature for OOo. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
