John Jason Jordan wrote: > I need an article that was published in volume five of a five volume set > "The Blackwell companion to syntax." I had to order the book through > interlibrary loan, and it has arrived. Imagine my surprise to discover > that, instead of receiving volume five, I received a CD. > > Nautilus opened the CD just fine on my Fedora 14 x86_64 computer. And > the article I need is right there in the file browser window. However, > it is titled "Chapter 75 - Verb particle constructions.xml." > > Double-clicking on it made Fedora try to open it in Gedit. That was not > a good choice. Then I dimly recalled that OOo uses xml, so I tried > opening it in Writer. Writer opened it, but all I got was pages and > pages of what looks like code, interspersed with what appears to be the > text of the article. It's there, but an unreadable mess. > > Google informs me that xml is Microsoft's new open document format. OK, > I don't have MS Office, but back I go to OOo for further checking. It > turns out that in OOo (3.3, from OOo, not Fedora repos) I can do File > > Open New > XML document. However, there appears no way to open an > existing xml file. > > So now I'm all gestumped. > > I could always schlep the CD back to the university, open it on a > university computer that has MS Office, and save as something else. But > surely I won't have to do that. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Can OOo "import" the file so it is > readable?
Do you have access to Kword? Just tried and it views an xml file without the coding that you describe. I am looking to install some other xml editors and see what they do. Using Ubuntu 11.4 Andy -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
