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#1 2009-09-29 01:05:14
- Raisuli
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easy markup language for txt to odt/rtf/doc conversion
Hi everyone,
I write prose for a living and so far have only used word processors like Open Office and Abiword. I don't need about 90% of the features these programs offer, so I've started playing around with Vim, which is a lot of fun and far less distracting than OO. Only thing that keeps me from ditching a word processor now is a simple markup language for my text files so that after a conversion to doc/rtf/odt italics and bold characters are shown. The publishers I work with only accept documents that are Word compatible, so anything else is unfortunately out of the question.
Any ideas?
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#2 2009-09-29 02:18:30
- xovan
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Re: easy markup language for txt to odt/rtf/doc conversion
As far as I know XML is what's behind word documents. If you format your xml properly it should convert to .doc pretty easy. Personnally I use emacs for my text editing and don't know much about vim.
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#3 2009-09-29 02:33:42
- Statix
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Re: easy markup language for txt to odt/rtf/doc conversion
You could use HTML as well. I suppose it's not as simple as what you're looking for though.
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#5 2009-09-29 03:21:14
- skottish
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Re: easy markup language for txt to odt/rtf/doc conversion
There's some good ideas in this thread:
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#6 2009-09-29 10:24:38
- Raisuli
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Re: easy markup language for txt to odt/rtf/doc conversion
Thanks for your suggestions. Didn't see that there was already a thread with a similar question. Asciiword and txt2tags sound like something worth checking out. HTML would do, but I'd still need to convert to doc or rtf. I'll have a look at xml as well though I'm not sure that's quite the way to go as it would add more formating to my writing and not less. We'll see. At least I have a few reference points now to get me started.
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