Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and JadeTex: Left and Right HeadersandFooters

[Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>]

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:55:29AM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Nik Clayton writes:
>  > > generate HTML and load it into Word, and export as RTF....
>  >=20
>  > Impossible if you're running on a Unix platform.
>
> I use Star Office  if I need to fool around with Word files

Scriptable?  Plus it's an immense burden to put on anyone that just
wants to convert docs from one format to another.

>  > Impossible if you're a free software project trying to use freely
>  > available tools.
>=20
> but in that case, why would you want an RTF file?!!!

I don't.  But users, and potential users of FreeBSD have thanked me more
than once for providing documentation in a format that they can pull in
to Word, print, and get nice output, where, for whatever reason, HTML or
PDF wasn't appropriate for them.

> anyway, what about Open Office?

Too big, and doesn't run properly yet on my platform.

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