#Index Previous Next [Cone] Re: question on advanced MS Word techniques - RTFM howto (Jerry Feldman) Jerry Feldman cone@blu.org Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:10:26 -0400 * Previous message: [Cone] Re: question on advanced MS Word techniques - RTFM howto (Jerry Feldman) * Next message: [Cone] question on advanced MS Word techniques - RTFM howto * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ --=.)N2UO9Ya'0r5Iz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:31:11 -0400 Alex Brown wrote: > I don't think Word can handle this. > > If you don't need complex formatting you might try, using a browser or > > text editor, to write the original in #ifdef'd-HTML and use the C > preprocessor in a script (since you are familiar with it) just as > you've indicated, to derive two different HTML files, long and short > -- then import into Word. The Cygwin suite provides gcc which gives > you the preprocessor (gcc -EP) in win32 so this need not be an > *ix-only solution. > > RTF might work too; I like the "Ted" RTF editor in Linux and I think > there's a Win32 version. I also like Lyx with the Linuxdoc SGML > Tools, which can produce RTF for import into Word. > > Lyx has features in its GUI to support RCS, so you could branch two > versions of a common document in RCS. This is not quite the same, of > course. > > In any case you will have to be aware of structure and tagging syntax > so as not to create an insane document in either version. The same is > true of Word or any other word processor, of course. Because Word > does not easily reveal its concept of your document's structure, this > is hard to do in Word. Last I knew it was still possible to see tags > in Word Perfect with "Reveal Codes" so that might be an alternative. The document needs to be in MS Word format. Several years ago I worked on a complex document (in Word) that was used as input to the MS Help system. The bottom line is that I want to maintain a single document, then have some automatic way to split it. But, if I need to simply cut, that is not too much of a problem either. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 --=.)N2UO9Ya'0r5Iz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4lTC+wA+1cUGHqkRAsiuAJ4+A3PWhf1BmUZmQPvapD2dD5XbaQCfZSVP OmW9eNRdqsR1SsAhNFjtVjQ= =rxg8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.)N2UO9Ya'0r5Iz-- ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Previous message: [Cone] Re: question on advanced MS Word techniques - RTFM howto (Jerry Feldman) * Next message: [Cone] question on advanced MS Word techniques - RTFM howto * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]