From Keith.Bierman@eng.sun.com Thu Apr 6 02:37:10 1995 Received: from Sun.COM (koriel.Sun.COM) by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA06640 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 6 Apr 1995 18:39:15 +0200 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM (engmail2.Eng.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (koriel.Sun.COM) id AA26773; Thu, 6 Apr 95 09:35:25 PDT Received: from chiba.Eng.Sun.COM by Eng.Sun.COM (5.x/SMI-5.3) id AA04953; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 09:37:56 -0700 Received: by chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06250; Thu, 6 Apr 95 09:37:10 PDT Date: Thu, 6 Apr 95 09:37:10 PDT From: Keith.Bierman@eng.sun.com (Keith Bierman-khb@chiba.eng.sun.com::SunPro) Message-Id: <9504061637.AA06250@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM> To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: 007 in word format X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 At the last meeting of J3 (or thereabouts) it was mentioned that ISO will accept standards in word (or wordperfect) but not other formats. For obscure reasons, after years of buying updates and not using them, I decided to give word 5.1a (or some such) a whirl. The fruits of the experiment can be put on an ftp server if anyone is interested. The standard made it through the conversion better than I would have expected (but needs a solid proofreading). I wasn't clever in this first attempt so the table of contents was blown. I recreated just enough of it to convince myself it was doable. I did not recreate the index. The process was fairly simple. Save the frame document in "mif" format and name the file foo.rtf. The frame filters use the suffix rtf to convert the mif to rtf format. MS word 5 for the mac was able to read them w/o trouble. The format for each section header was defective somehow (a -4pt specification) but this was easily fixed. At least one block of text came out all in symbol font. Also easily corrected. There is probably a bad table or two. I believe that a good (word experienced) junior techwriter could fix all the problems rather easily. It would just take a little careful reading and perseverance. The index work, I fear, will have to be redone.