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Richard,

In article <1993May7.184325.4601@samba.oit.unc.edu> Richard F. Sidley,
sidley@somcru.med1.med.unc.edu writes:
>Is there a translator available which can convert Word for Windows
documents into
>ASCII on the fly for serving to gopher and/or wais clients?

I've attached two procedures we've developed for converting Word and
WordPerfect documents to ASCII while losing as little formatting as
possible.  I hope this helps.

                                       David Walker
                                       Assistant Director, NTS
                                       Office of Academic Computing

                           Addresses:  NTS
                                       University of California
                                       Irvine, CA 92717-5475
                                        (714) 856-7037
                                        DHWalker@uci.edu

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 14:33:25 -0700
From: David Walker <DHWalker@uci.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <uci-cwis@uci.edu>
Subject: Word 5.0 "tricks" for formatting WAIS documents

People,

Here are the tricks that Bruce Cotsonas wrote up for formatting WAIS
documents with Word verion 5.0.  I have modified it to reflect what we've
learned and to explain why the various things are done.

                                                 David

1) Select the entire document.

2) Change the font to courier, change the type size to 12 points, and
adjust the right margin to 7&3/8 inches.  This will keep the lines at no
more than around 75 characters.

3) Choose "Paragraph..." under the "Format" menu, and set the spacing
after
each paragraph to 12 points.  This will cause a blank line to be generated
after each paragraph.

4) Choose "Plain Text" under the "Format" menu.  This will ensure that no
italics, bolding, etc. are being used.

5) Choose "Save As..." under the "File" menu and set the file type to
"Text
with Layout."  This will write a standard ASCII file that can be FTP'ed to
the WAIS server.

After these steps, your document should be very close to the right
formatting.  Tables and other "special" formatting may require some extra
work by hand, however.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:21:01 -0800
To: oac_nts_development@oac.uci.edu
From: Brian Roode <BGRoode@uci.edu>
Subject: WordPerfect -> Text instructions

Here's what I came up with to convert WordPerfect for Windows (version
5.1)
to text files:
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                               (bgr 1/19/93)

Instructions for reformatting WordPerfect for Windows documents for use in
UCI's Campus Wide Information Service.


1.   Select the entire document.

2.   Choose "Font" from the "Font" menu.  Select "New Courier"
Deselect any special "appearance" or "size" settings such as bold
or italic.

3.   Adjust the right margin to 7&3/8 inches to keep lines at no
more than around 75 characters.

4.   Deselect all text.

5.   Choose "Save As..." from the "File" menu and set the file
format to "ASCII Text (DOS)".  This will create a standard text
file suitable for use as a CWIS information source document.

Please note that tables and other special formatting will require
extra work by hand.


Brian Roode, Office of Academic Computing,
Network & Telecommunications Services
(714) 856-8350