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- ToPP a converter from PROWRITE and EXCELLENCE formated text files to the
- textual input format of Professional Page.
-
- The program automatically recognizes which input type (actually each is an
- IFF file but has unique ID's so one big case is all thats needed).
-
- One program option is available: suppress outputing font information.
- This one has its uses where you have a template setup with the correct
- fonts already and just want to retain the style attributes of the text. An
- example is the pro-page Templates disk.
-
- Colors are supported: Prowrite supports 7 colors, these I have named
- according to some of the builtin default colors from propage.
-
-
- For E! there were no set of defaults like prowrite, so the colors are set
- up as E10, E11, E12, ..., E17 You will need to tell propage what these are
- according to how you set them up in E!.
-
- From the program comments:
-
-
- topp: To prof page; from prowrite and excellence
-
- Synopsis:
- This uses the iffcheck.mod routine found in benchmark m2 as
- the starting off point and by eliminating the display and
- substituting some conversion output, I read a handful of the
- IFF chunks and convert to an ascii only representation of
- styles, colors and optionally fonts.
-
- usage: topp filenamein [nf] >output_redirect
-
- Note, the nf is actually only tested for existence for now.
- It serves to specify no font output.
-
- For prowrite, the space before a paragraph attribute is now
- handled. Forget about tabs and other paragraph stuff, it does
- not map into propage anyway.
-
- Prowrite colors:
- Colors from top to bottom of thedefault prowrite color setup:
- Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta
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- E! colors: E10, E11 ... E17 for 8 different colors as defined
- by user in preferences option.
-
- When importing the textfile topp builds, tell propage the text input format
- is Generic.
-
- If anyone finds a problem with these conversions, Sending me a zoo file
- with a stripped E! or PW file (showing just the problem) would allow me to
- fix things. I can be reached as -NOMAD- on peoplelink.
-
- Credits: Thankfully, I had the benchmark debugger and the template iff
- check program to start from.
-