Re: Frame to text file question

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why wouldn't save as text work?

Tom Neuburger

Dave Truman wrote:

>>From: "John Stewart"'s original message on Framers
>> > Can't find anything about this in the archives. What's the best way to
>> > convert a Frame file to a text file and preserve some rudimentary
>> > formatting, or add it back in
>Have you considered saving to HTML as an intermediary format?
>
>I've had some luck doing this.  I save the chapter file to HTML and then 
>either:
>A. run the "strip tags" function in my favourite HTML editor to get a 
>really bare-bones text-only document or
>B. load the HTML file into Netscape 4.7 and then save it as text
>
>Option B actually works pretty well, preserving centered lines, bullets, 
>indents, etc. in the text file.
>
>dave
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