Subject: processing RTF documents From: Ron Ross <ronross@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 18 Oct 1999 15:58:04 -0400 |
Hi, I am presently doing a lot of collaborative work in translating and revising documents, and although my sgml/dsssl system is fine for producing well formatted documents, the process gets a little clunky when I have to incorporate revisions from word processor files. Getting partners and clients to switch to sgml/xml is not currently an option (and switching back to the word processor for all my editing is an option I'd like to avoid;-). I've downloaded Omnimark and Balise, which both seem to offer means for converting and processing RTF files. Eventually, I'll learn them both and exploit the advantages of each, but my time is limitted now. So . . . I would appreciate any opinions on the relative usefulness of Omnimark and Balise so that I may concentrate on one or the other. Suggestions regarding alternative solutions would also be welcome, of course (OpenJade transformations?). What am I looking for? Well, conveting RTF documents to instances of my own DTD would seem useful. Processes for "diffing" versions within the same DTD would also be helpful. One of the procedures I've come up with is to save the incoming file as text (ANSI Win/iso-latin-1) and run Ediff through Emacs on chunks of text at a time, or also converting the RTF output of my own version of the document to text, running ediff on the whole file, then marking up the result. It's all a bit time consuming, and error prone. (Should Emacs users on the list have hints for configuring ediff with appropriate regexps to ignore markup, that too, would be highly welcome). I hope this isn't too off topic. Thanks for your help, Ron -- Traductions Ron Ross Translations ronross@xxxxxxxxx "They were magical delusions, fireworks." -I. Murdoch DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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