Status of USR Doc conversion (was Re: New vgetty release)

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>>>>> "dthumim" == dthumim  <dthumim@alum.mit.edu> writes:

    dthumim>    From: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> Date: Thu,
    dthumim> 2 Apr 1998 08:11:16 -0500

    dthumim>    I have the file.  I managed to convince M$word to save
    dthumim> the file as an RTF document.  It has been run through
    dthumim> RTFtoHTML.  Now the thing is a mess.  I am correcting the
    dthumim> layout as best HTML will allow, and converting everything
    dthumim> to text.

    dthumim> You might want to check out demoronizer, a tool for
    dthumim> fixing broken Microsoft HTML.  I haven't used it myself,
    dthumim> so don't ask me for help, and I don't know if the
    dthumim> RTFtoHTML filter you mention has the same problems, but
    dthumim> you can read about it at:

    dthumim> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoronizer/

No, the problem he is facing is broken RTF -- Microsoft *CHANGES* the
definition of RTF with every new release of msword.  This makes it
impossible for non-M$ programmers to keep utilities up to date.  The
best advice would be to load the msword doc intoan *OLDER* version of
word and then save that as the RTF.  That would probably generate the
definition of RTF that the rtf2html filter is expecting.

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