From Miles.Ellis@educational-technology-resources-centre.oxford.ac.uk Fri Apr 7 09:40:25 1995 Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA29951 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:39:55 +0200 Received: from vax.ox.ac.uk by oxmail2.ox.ac.uk. with SMTP (PP) id <15880-0@oxmail2.ox.ac.uk.>; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 09:39:55 +0100 Received: from 163.1.85.1 by vax.ox.ac.uk (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Fri, 07 Apr 1995 09:39:33 +0100 X-Sender: MELLIS@vax.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 09:40:25 +0000 To: "keith.bierman" From: Miles.Ellis@educational-technology-resources-centre.oxford.ac.uk (Miles Ellis) Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.791) 007 in word format Cc: sc22wg5 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 On 6th April, Keith Bierman wrote > >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. That is good news. In fact, we don't need to do anything about it for the current (F95) revision unless we wish to, as a paper copy will be acceptable for projects already approved before the new policy came into effect. However, unless it is revised, we shall probably need to follow the approved guidelines for subsequent revisions and any interim documents, so it is very useful to know that it will not be too hard to produce a new base document in Word format. Thanks Keith, Miles ======================================================================= Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37-41 Wellington Square Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk =======================================================================