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TXTFMT.LIT #11628 11 Oct 01 06:08 AM
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Maurice Marshall Offline OP
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Our application uses the TXTFMT.LIT to prouduce
>printer-ready list files. Is there a TXTFMT.LIT for
>A-Shell ?
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Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11629 01 Jul 08 03:44 AM
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Another potential user has just raised the TXTFMT question again. Has anyone found or developed one?

Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11630 01 Jul 08 04:05 AM
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Yes, I have developed a solution to the TXTFMT problem, though it doesn't involve any LIT files.

Far and away the best solution to the problem is to find a Microsoft Word expert who can convert the TXTFMT docs into Word, and from there create whatever you need: printed pages, PDFs, HTML (for on-line) or CHMs (real Windows help files).

Because your docs are now in Word, they will be:

* easy to update, modify and improve forever

* never get technologically left behind

* teaching your writers how to use the world's word processor of choice

* provide more or less unlimited flexibility and options for the unknown future

* supportable and maintainable by anybody who knows Word

* transferable to customers/clients in native and familiar format

Somebody who knows Word well can do most of the conversion work with global find-and-replace options, and build macros to handle most of the rest.

While converting an entire library of 20/30 year old TXTFMT documentation to Word is not a trivial project, a slow-and-steady approach could get it done over a reasonable period of time.

I'm so glad you asked!

Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11631 01 Jul 08 04:20 AM
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Do you happen to know such a person?

Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11632 01 Jul 08 10:32 AM
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Maybe a TXTFMT command to GDI command pre-processor/translator between report program and report output is needed? I don't have such a program but it does seem possible if you are working with windows printers.

Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11633 09 Jul 08 12:40 PM
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I had sent a query about TXTFMT to some old developers that I had email addresses for, and just got a response from one informing me that they developed a TXTFMT emulator in Perl, which is available for $100. However, it currently only supports Epson printer emulation. (For a fee they would be happy to modify it for some other printer type). It also doesn't support superscript or subscript.

If anyone is interested in that, let me know and I'll connect you. (I don't want to post the developer's email address directly for fear of spam.)

Re: TXTFMT.LIT #11634 10 Jul 08 04:08 AM
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Thanks but we have since abandoned our approach here...


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