It seems that the interface between Volkwriter, my old software, and Word Perfect, is not so great if you have the # symbol in the text—it erases paragraphs, in WP. And guess what I’d used in VW for a spacer. FORTUNATELY, MS Word turns out not to do that. So I’m going to have to go through with both processors open and carefully transfer bits of the file as MS Word sees it into WP, which may be a bit of an argument between the two. I just love having to do this. But Word is the world’s messiest program when it comes to converting text for e-books. It leaves literally pages and pages of worthless code all over a document.
SO cover me. I’m going in.
Ahhh, I have to use Word at work. I would rather use vi. When I read the post the geek in me said “Sounds like a SED task.”
I suppose that it is better than leaving the formatting up to the editors.
I like what Charles_Smyth has to say. I generally paste into Notepad and then cut-and-paste from there to strip off formatting characters and leave myself with pure ASCII. If there’s text manipulation to be performed, UltraEdit is marvelous; instead of Notepad, I paste into UltraEdit and futz around and cut-and-paste from UltraEdit once things are copasetic. vi is a UNIX text editor (the standard, I believe–provided with every UNIX installation) and is quite powerful but user-unfriendly. I will take heat for slandering vi, but these remarks will come from people who use vi every day. UltraEdit is extremely friendly and has a ton of predefined stuff that is amazingly useful.
I always found vi ugly.
Just had a look at OpenOffice.org website to see if there was a hidden menu item or extension to do Reveal Codes. They have been batting it around for eight years without getting it implemented! http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3395 And now, it’s a question of where the (many) proponents/requesters of this feature have gone, are they staying with “OracleOffice”, or migrating to the forked version, LibreOffice?