Re: DOCBOOK: MS files included with elements?

["Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave@bcs.co.nz>]

You could try saving the document as RTF and then write a program to 
convert relevant markup (and discard everything else).

Good luck if you try this!

Dave

At 23:21 10/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 May 2001, david@usermode.org wrote:
>
> > You're looking at the problem from the wrong angle.
>
>I guess it might look that way, but I don't think I am.  I know
>what the author's say in the book as well, and I see the point of
>giving up control of formatting and style and why this is such a
>pain point.  But that seems to apply when one is starting the
>document in docbook.  It doesn't seem to apply when one is
>converting existing wysiwyg documentation.