Microsoft KB Archive/70794

DCA[RFT] Conversion Limitations in WinWord 1.10

PSS ID Number: Q70794 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

1.10

WINDOWS

Summary:

The following are limitations of file conversions between Word for Windows 1.1 and DCA[RFT] (Revisable-Form Text Document Content Architecture) via the DCA[RFT] file converter, CONV-DCA.DLL.

Note: You must paginate the RFT-DCA file after conversion to ensure correct page breaks and to make the first character of the footnote reference marks appear on the screen.

The following features are not supported in the DCA conversion program:

= WHEN CONVERTING TO DCA =

Character

 * Small capitals become regular capitals.
 * Hidden text becomes underlined text.

Paragraph

 * Right-aligned text becomes left-aligned in versions of DisplayWrite prior to DisplayWrite IV, version 2.
 * Hanging indents do not exist in RFT-DCA. Tabs and indent tabs are used to maintain appearance.
 * Only .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 line spacings convert to DisplayWrite.

Division

 * Snaking columns must be terminated with a hard column break; otherwise, snaking column text is converted to single-column text.
 * When RTF snaking columns are converted into DCA multiple columns, only consistent line spacing is supported.
 * Page numbering outside of headers is not supported.
 * First-page-only headers and footers are not supported.

Other

 * Normal and nonbreaking hyphens become required hyphens. Optional hyphens become syllable hyphens.
 * Leading characters for tab stops are not converted.
 * Merge documents are not supported. All special marks become normal text.
 * Indexes and tables of contents are not supported. All special marks become normal text.
 * Style sheets and glossary files are not converted.
 * Outlining is not converted.

= WHEN CONVERTING FROM DCA =


 * Document comments are not converted.
 * Lines-per-inch commands are not supported.
 * Half justification becomes full justification.
 * Page numbering outside of header text is not supported.
 * Merge documents are not supported. All special marks become normal text.

= [DCACONV] IN WIN.INI =

You can set the following switches in your WIN.INI file.

The following switch should be set for conversions from RTF to RFT-DCA in the 5520 environment. The switch tells the conversion program to generate some different RFT-DCA structures in cases where the RFT-DCA required by the 5520 differs from that required by DisplayWrite.

Variant=5520

Setting the following switch determines the way decimal tabs found in the RTF file will be converted. The default action is to convert RTF decimal tabs into RFT-DCA period tabs. However, this parameter can be set to convert RTF decimal tabs into RFT-DCA comma tabs. This is especially useful for European versions of word processors that use comma tabs.

Tab=CommaTab

The following switch is used in the RTF->RFT-DCA conversion to set the strikethrough character to x. The x can be any character with an ANSI value greater than or equal to 33 and less than 127. The default strikethrough character is the hyphen (-).

StrikeThrough=“x”

Setting the following switch determines how the ANSI beta character is converted. The default action is to convert the beta character into the German s-set character (a character in the DisplayWrite Character Set). However, you can also convert this character into the Greek beta character (a character in the DisplayWrite Symbol Set) by setting the switch as shown in the above line.

TranslateBeta=Greek

Reference(s):

Word for Windows 1.1 CONVINFO.DOC

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