From dfs@ebt.com Fri Dec 8 15:08:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from ebt-inc.ebt.com by utafll.uta.edu (4.1/25-eef) id AA12075; Fri, 8 Dec 95 15:08:33 CST Received: (from dfs@localhost) by ebt-inc.ebt.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA27273 for robin@utafll.uta.edu; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:11:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:11:15 -0500 From: "David F. Sklar" Message-Id: <199512081911.OAA27273@ebt-inc.ebt.com> To: robin@utafll.uta.edu Subject: NEW INFORMATION ABOUT Rainbow Content-Length: 1613 Status: R ===================================== RAINBOW NEWS FOR 8 December 1995 ===================================== **************************** *** THE RAINBOW FTP SITE ftp.ebt.com (192.111.115.3) Login as 'anonymous' **************************** *** WordPerfect 5.x SUPPORT FORTHCOMING! Stay tuned for news on a WordPerfect Rainbow Maker that may soon be donated to the Rainbow user community. We hope to be distributing this new development by mid-January 1996. **************************** *** NEW 3-in-1 RAINBOW MAKER (v2.01) NOW AVAILABLE This Rainbow Maker supercedes v2.0, which we began distributing in April 1995. Supports these WP formats: RTF: High performance for documents from MacWord (>=5.x), WinWord (2.x/6.x) RTF from any other source is subject to data/formatting loss, or even premature program termination. Interleaf ASCII: The first line of your Interleaf ASCII document must be: MIF: The first line of your MIF file must start with either: or Available on these platforms: DOS/Win --> supports all flavors of Windows (3.1, NT, 95) Sun4 --> also known as Solaris 1.x Sun5 --> also known as Solaris 2.x (HP and AIX platforms available upon request; send mail to dfs@ebt.com.) Location of the documentation and installation instructions: pub/nv/dtd/rainbow/rbmaker/rbmaker.doc Location of the executables: pub/nv/dtd/rainbow/rbmaker From owner-majordomo@ebt.com Fri Dec 8 15:48:56 1995 Return-Path: Received: from ebt-inc.ebt.com by utafll.uta.edu (4.1/25-eef) id AA12170; Fri, 8 Dec 95 15:48:42 CST Received: from spock.ebt.com (ds9 [198.112.113.136]) by ebt-inc.ebt.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA28423; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:23:13 -0500 Message-Id: <30C890F2.6168@ebt.com> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 14:24:34 -0500 From: David Sklar Organization: Electronic Book Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (Windows; I; 32bit) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: ebt_wire@ebt.com Cc: mangsrv@onr.com Subject: WordPerfect 5.x Rainbow Maker forthcoming Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R At 01:56 PM 12/6/95 -0600, MANGSRV wrote: >WordPerfect is our organization's standard word processing software. Has >anyone successfully converted WordPerfect documents into DynaText files. If >so, did your style names come through for both paragraph and character >styles? We've had some minor success and wondered if others had already been >down this road. If so, are there any detours you'd warn us away from. If >we're the first to attempt merging WordPerfect and DynaTag we'd be happy to >answer your questions. At the SGML '95 conference in Boston last week, there was an informal announcement of the existence of an operational Rainbow Maker for WordPerfect 5.x. The owner of this application expressed his desire to donate the application and source code (C) to the Rainbow user community. I am working with him to bring this to fruition. If you are interested in following the progress of this development and you are not already a member of the Rainbow mailing list, subscribe by sending mail to rainbow@ebt.com.