Re: processing RTF documents

Subject: Re: processing RTF documents
From: Ron Ross <ronross@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:34:37 -0400
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Gershon joseph wrote the following:
> While Omnimark is
> NOT easy to learn (though I found it easier than DSSSL), once you have
> mastered it you'll use it for all sorts of text processing. It's now
> my default tool for all transformations and outputs.

Obviously useful. I had already begun learning Balise (argh!...) ...
does anyone use Balise?
> 
> I have Omnimark programs that take RTF to SGML. The first pass uses
> Rick Geimer's RTF2XML as-is. I then process the XML files to generate
> SGML according to my DTD. The conversion retains ALL the information
> in the RTF files, including links to graphics and cross references.
> The source Word files make good use of paragraph and character styles,
> and I use that information to correctly tag the SGML. If your
> contributors use styles rather than local formatting, it's easy for
> Omnimark programs to use that information in generating correctly
> tagged SGML. If your authors use local formatting, the Omnimark
> program has to guess based on the local formatting, which is more
> prone to errors.

I have Rick Geimer's package and will give it a try after experimenting
with majix. The styles issue remains in all cases, of course.

> 
> Hope this helps some.

It does. Thanks,

Ron


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