Re: AFT -- Almost free text.

[Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>]

[quoted lines by Charles McCathieNevile on January 11, 2002, at 12:42]

>Aaah. The value of this tool (which I am imagining through my experience of a
>tool called txt2html) is that it recognises common text formatting
>conventions (which can vary from page to page) and converts them into markup
>which is richer and more explicit. If it is a reasonably good tool, and
>txt2html certainly is, so I imagine it will be, it is useful.

I understand that, but am still perplexed. Isn't Word smart enough to do that
for itself? I still don't understand the need to use a clever common format
detecter to prepare the plain text file before it's passed on to the Word user.
I'd understand if the original user intended to maintain the document in its
new format from then on, but that, at least to me, didn't appear to be the
case.

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