From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-29 23:36:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: OT: Microsoft takes on history Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:35:03 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1022740563 91872 137.194.161.2 (30 May 2002 06:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 06:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Envelope-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <338040f8.0205291332.70a29d53@posting.google.com> Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24982 Date: 2002-05-29T23:35:03-07:00 From: Bob Leif To: Dan Andreatta et al. It is interesting that a significant proportion of Ada users are chemists. I suspect that it has to do with our scientific upbringing, which includes an acute sensitivity to the purity of chemicals. Concerning FrameMaker, I am about to receive version 7, which now can create XML DTDs and cascading style sheets. The next step is a document processor that uses schema and XSL. Eventually, the replacement for PDF should be an XML version of a MHT file. The bottom line is that the GUI will be a browser application. -----Original Message----- From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Dan Andreatta Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:32 PM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft takes on history Stephen Leake wrote in message news:... > "Marin David Condic" writes: > > some in FrameMaker. I prefer LaTeX. Me too... > > Don't most word processors provide some means of importing and > > exporting file formats other than their own? (I know the copy of > > MS-Word I have here seems to be able to do that...) > > Yes, but it's never adequate. If you export RTF from Word, and import > it into FrameMaker, you get the bold fonts and stuff, but you totally > lose the meta-format of headers, paragraph styles, etc. Well, not > _totally_, but you lose enough that I don't try to do it anymore. > > > In other words, this seems to be a tempest in a teapot. > > nope. It's a real problem. > Some time ago my wife (a chemist like me) had to send a paper to a scientific journal, and the accepted formats were PDF or Word98/Win2000, no other combinations Word/Win accepted... Something is not right here... Dan