From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.44.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB673EA25 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:11:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g0BKBxW15246 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:11:59 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) id g0BKBxi28842 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:11:59 -0500 Received: from mielke.cc (root@wsp233033wss.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.157.76.7]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id g0BKBwd28831 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:11:58 -0500 Received: from dave.private.mielke.cc (root@dave.private.mielke.cc [192.168.0.2]) by mielke.cc (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0BKBuk27173 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:11:57 -0500 Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.private.mielke.cc (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA29186 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:10:25 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: dave.private.mielke.cc: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:10:24 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Mielke To: Subject: Re: AFT -- Almost free text. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: [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. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell.