Re: Ugly hack for multiple MSWord docs.

["John R. Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Thursday 15 June 2006 08:50, Hans Hagen wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
> > Someday there will be an elegant solution to the MSWord to
> > Context problem. For now there is my ugly hack as described here.
>
> maybe the word xml output, since that can be parsed
>
> Hans
Interesting suggestion. I don't have a copy of MSWord. And my
clients are naive so that asking them to save in exotic formats
is likely to be unproductive. 

Open Office does not save as xml. Abiword, however does. In a
simplistic test case (Now is the time for all good men.)
Abiword saved the document as xml with a little coaxing and
texexec compiled it clean. So at least there is something there
to experiment with. 

Next I will try a real MSWord document, save it as xml from
Abiword, and see what Context does with it.

One question: How do I mix in the necessary Context commands such
as papersize, font selection etc.? What are the rules and no-nos
for blending Context commands into an xml document?

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