Re: mswordview?

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

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Greg Stark writes:

> Before I start doing this does anyone have a viewer using mswordview to expand
> word attachments into html and the run w3 on them?

There is a thread on gnus.emacs.vm.info about the same question in
VM-land.  First, you will need a script to turn mswordview into a real 
filter.  This is what Kyle Jones wrote:

#!/bin/sh

trap 0 "rm -f /tmp/$$"
cat > /tmp/$$
mswordview /tmp/$$

Then, you need to hook it up the Gnus.  This is how you do in in VM,
and I imagine that Gnus has similar variables.


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From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
Subject: more on mswordview
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:02:14 -0700
Message-ID: <14332.60982.751958.952841@crystal.WonderWorks.COM>

Dave Bakhash writes:
 > has anyone actually gone through, from start to finish, making VM use
 > mswordview and w3 so that you can actually view MS Word documents
 > inside XEmacs/VM using mswordview to convert to HTML and then starting 
 > w3?  I can do this, but the code will take a while.

It should be simple.  Use vm-mime-type-converter-alist to convert 
application/msword (or whatever) to text/html.  If w3-region is a 
defined function VM will automatically use it to display the
resulting HTML.  The only problem that I know of is that
mswordview does not accept input from stdin.  So you need a
wrapper script to collect the input into a file and hand the file 
to mswordview.

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A shell script wrapper around mswordview would achieve the
desired effect, probably.