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- EMAIL.PRS -- a WordPerfect printer driver suitable for producing plain
- pasted-up text for email. Works with both WP for DOS v5.1, and WP for
- Windows v5.1,
-
- OVERVIEW
- ~~~~~~~~
- WordPerfect documents cannot be emailed directly, since they contain
- binary data. WordPerfect can export documents as plain text files, but
- when this is done all formatting (text attributes, superscripting, page
- numbering, etc.) is lost, and even some text is lost (i.e. text contained
- in headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, and other such substructures).
- Mailing a uuencoded copy of the WP document is somewhat awkward, and
- unpleasant for the receiver, who must uudecode it before reading it, and
- must have a copy of WP.
-
- EMAIL.PRS is a WordPerfect printer driver that addresses this problem.
- Documents processed with it (see USAGE below) are directly emailable, and
- retain all text, including that in headers, notes, etc. EMAIL.PRS also
- attempts to preserve indications of the most common text attributes, using
- standard email conventions. The following table shows the attributres
- preserved, and the representation used.
-
- Attribute Representation Example
- ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
- Boldface * blah *bolded* blah
- Underscore _ blah _underscored_ blah
- Dbl Underscore _ blah _double underscored_ blah
- Italic _ blah _italicized_ blah
- Subscript _ blah x_1 blah
- Superscript ^ blah x^2 blah
-
- In addition, EMAIL.PRS tries to give a readable representation of selected
- characters from the WP extended character sets. The following table
- summarizes:
-
- Character Representation
- ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 4,0 >
- 4,1 >
- 4,2 >
- 4,3 >
- 4,9 <<
- 4,10 >>
- 4,17 1/2
- 4,18 1/4
- 4,25 3/4
- 4,33 -
- 4,34 -
- 6,0 -
- 6,1 +/-
- 6,2 <=
- 6,3 >=
- 6.5 /
- 6,6 /
- 6,7 \
- 6,8 /
- 6,9 |
- 6,10 <
- 6,11 >
- 6,14 ==
- 6,20 ~
- 6,21 ->
- 6,22 <-
- 6,25 =
- 6,45 '
- 6.46 ''
- 6,49 l
- 6,66 U
- 6,67 <
- 6,68 >
- 6,72 0
- 6,77 <<
- 6,78 >>
- 6,85 &
- 6,86 v
- 6,91 |-
- 6,92 -|
- 6,97 [[
- 6,98 ]]
- 6,99 !=
- 6,175 =df
- 6,226 +
- 6,227 -
- 6,228 =
- 6,229 *
- 6,230 '
- 6,231 ''
- 6,232 '''
- 6,233 H
- 6,234 P
- 7,85 ->
- 7,86 <-
- 7,87 -
- 7,150 &
- 7,152 v
-
- Note that since some of these actually use more than one character space,
- text with Justify=Full may have a ragged right margin. In general,
- Justify=Left produces better results with EMAIL.PRS.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Install EMAIL.PRS into WP 5.1 (see your WP manual for details). As the
- Port, select Other and supply a filename, e.g. C:\TMP\WP-EMAIL.TXT.
-
-
- USAGE
- ~~~~~
- To produce an emailable representation of a document, or of part of a
- document, select "Pseudo-printer for email output" as your printer, and
- then print. The output will be placed in the filename you specified during
- installation. Note: subsequent print jobs using EMAIL.PRS will overwrite
- the previous ones, not append to them. This is the result of a
- WordPerfect limitation.
-
- REVISION HISTORY
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- RjR 26 Nov 89 First version: just STANDARD.PRS with overstriking removed.
-
- RjR 3 Nov 91 Added approximations of selected characters from charsets 2,
- 4, 6, and 7 using graphs, digraphs, and trigraphs.
-
- RjR 2 Feb 92 Added email-style bolding (with prefix and suffix "*"
- characters), underline and italics (with prefix and suffix
- "_"), subscript (with prefix "_"), and superscript (with
- prefix "^").
-
- AUTHOR
- ~~~~~~
- Richard Reiner <rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca>
-