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At 11:30 AM 2/18/2003 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: >The main thing is that if people use fonts (and hopefully styles) >consistently, you can work with the data. There are reasonable, and improving >conversion tools that can work with that as a basis. When I write a document from scratch, I do. The first thing I ever did with XML was to convert a Microsoft Word manual I had written, and after automatic conversion, there were about a hundred errors in 400 pages. But when I cut and paste from many sources into a single document, my formats all get messed up. And if my XML depends on my formats, I have to get the formatting right before I can convert cleanly. For me, it's easier to just write it using text in the first place, but we're all angle-bracket geeks here. Most authors don't think like we do. FWIW, after insisting that I use Microsoft Word, a publisher is also telling me I have to make sure, by hand, that I am following all the guidelines that an XML editor would have enforced for me....and I've done a *lot* of cutting and pasting to create this document from various other things I had written.... Jonathan
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