[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a txt document
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:50:41 -0500
Cindy,
Txt files don't retain any font information so italics, underline, and bold
characteristics can't be kept. I thought that I did get a file created in
notepad to retain m-dashes, but I tested that because I was thinking that it
couldn't. I didn't think there was an ascii character for m-dash. I think
it may very well depend on the type of txt file you create. Word can make
several kinds, so that should be investigated. If you can't possibly get
the txt files to keep m-dashes replace them with 2 single dashes, which is
less desirable than m-dashes, but far more accurate than a single dash with
or without spaces arround them. Finding the best kind of txt file should
also fix the problem of the pagebreaks disappearing. That certainly can be
fixed unless the Mac version of Word is really different. .:-) These
factors are what make rtf's more desirable than txt's.
On another toppic, PageDown in Word only takes you to the next screen of
text not to the next page of the document or book.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
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