[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


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On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:31:11 -0400
Alex Brown <a.brown@ieee.org> 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. 

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