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Re: Slightly OFF-TOPIC: Shoebox 4.0 to HTML CCT

From:BP.Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Friday, December 11, 1998, 19:21
At 10:39 9.12.1998 -0600, Sheets, Jeff wrote:
>A while back taliesin posted a message, "Viva Shoebox!" I had been >interested and was going to convert his work into C or C++. I have decided >instead to make a CCT, Consistent Changes Table, that will allow you to do a >simple plain text export using it to make an HTML file from within Shoebox. >I will begin by implementing the markers I use most, and if enough demand >for more is desired, will continue to the more difficult ones. Hopefully it >will monopolize on much of the data contained in the MDF cct's, so that you >can use the alternate hierarchy as well. Stay tuned, but not TOO tuned. >It'll be a while. :)
I once did something similar with FileMaker: a calculation field that converted each entry of my dictionary database into an RTF-formatted paragraph. It worked like a charm; I only had to paste in the RTF preamble. /BP ---------------------------------------------------- <bpj@...> Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)