Re: SynthLab (IIGS)

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <3c705b4d$1@news.uow.edu.au>, david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson) 
wrote:

> CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney) writes:
>
>>On 16 Feb 2002 01:55:23 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
>>>I tried it, and the result was a clean text file.  The spurious characters
>>>had all been eliminated.  I also find that Word is very flexible about
>>>interpreting any EOL convention correctly, and normalizing it to the
>>>PC-standard CR-LF without any prompting.
>
>>I just tried saving as a text file with both Teach and
>>Hermes/ShadowWrite and neither of them fix the high ASCII characters.
>>I guess I always just assumed it would fix those.  Maybe there is a
>>Babelfish translator that would do that.  :)
>
> I wrote a simple character set translation program to handle ASCII VTxxx MSDOS
> Mac and Postscript sets. It will convert 8 bit to nearest 7 bit or between
> the various 8 bit sets. eg:

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Hermes/ShadowWrite has a similar function built-in. Select Edit/Modify Text/
Convert Text, and it will convert characters to plain ASCII. There is also
an option to allow for longer substitutions e.g. (C) for copyright symbol,
<= for less-than-or-equal-to.

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