slightly OT... .

[Henry Olyer]

I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files.

And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord.

What do I to make them work?



On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

>
>
>        Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many
>        embedded quotes.  By-hand worked fine.
>
>        --g
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >
> >       First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms,
> >       this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway.
> >
> >       A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the
> >       howto's of changing "this into ``this'' in openoffice.  [[And
> >       'this into `this': it's a two-fer]].  Has anybody tried this
> >       with abiword??  Clues, tips please?  (Figure I'll ask here
> >       first.)
> >
> >       My ascii-to-markup program does the same thing, but only for
> >       double-quotes since the fact that the zillions of contractions
> >       like can't, would've, and informal english like "So: howzit
> >       hangin'?" gave me *many* second thoughts.
> >
> >       1)  Does anybody onlist have any idea howto turn 'this' into
> >           &lsquo' ?   In the HTML ampersand chars list, that's what it
> >               is called.  Using the ampersand and ints it is "&#8286;" --
> >               minus the quotes, of course.
> >
> >       2)  Iwould like some clues howto automate this either via
> >           abiword OR algorithm.  It took some large N days back in
> >           1994 when I first hacked atom to realize that I would have
> >               to use recursion to get the left|beginning and
> right|closing
> >           double quotes.
> >
> >       3) Or should I give up and do this by eyeball?!
> >
> >       tia,
> >
> >       gary
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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>
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