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Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 18:21 schrieb Lindsay Haisley: |
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> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:01 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: |
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> > > The resulting document uses a Courier non-prop. font and I'd like to be |
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> > > able to print it to a text file _just as it looks_ and preserve all the |
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> > > indentation, centering and justification. Seems like just about any |
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> > > format I save it to, however (HTML, RTF, text) loses these features and |
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> > > I'll have another job ahead of me re-formatting everything again in vim |
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> > > or some other text editor. This can be done, but I'm wondering if |
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> > > there's any way to get text output from OpenOffice that's truer to the |
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> > > original appearance. |
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> > Is there some reason you can't save it as a text (or RTF, or |
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> > opendocument) file? I've imported from obscure wordprocessors before, |
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> > and saved as normal files fine. |
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> I can leave it in any one of a number of formats. I've created ps, pdf |
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> and odf files which are properly formatted (rtf is not). My thinking is |
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> that this is archival material and if I'm going to submit it to an |
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> archive site, plain ASCII text is a lot more likely to be easily read |
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> and understood 20 years from now than is a more complex format. |
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Isn't TeX / LaTeX used for this purpose. As the de facto standard for more |
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than 15 years I don't think it will change anytime soon. |
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