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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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