Word Processing Formats

[Mark Terry]

I thought this approach might work, but I'm stymied by a bug/feature.  
Selecting characters in a WPSO in a loop to identify their formatting  
eventually gives the error "Too many nested subroutiines." Where are  
the nested subroutines here??

local CNT
CNT=0
loop
     CNT=CNT+1
     ActiveSuperObject "SetSelection",CNT-1,CNT
until CNT=200

If this worked, I could go after more data, but it won't go much over  
100 characters. Getting more data drops that down to 30 or 40. Can  
this be fixed?

M


On Jun 25, 2008, at 3:33 PM, JL Cook wrote:

> Mark Terry wrote:
>> Given the limitations of our own WPSO, we could maybe come up
>> with a basic translation engine and then assign different parts to
>> different people.
> Good idea; however, unlike such standards as XML, the WPSO  
> formatting does not appear to be human readable. Since it was  
> obtained from a 3rd party many years ago, I wonder if anybody knows  
> what it means. Perhaps Jim does. If we could get the basic  
> parameters then an interpreter might be easy as there are not that  
> many parameters. For my needs, since all of the data would be new so  
> it would really nice if there was a way to display and edit XML/HTML  
> or some other standard and avoid the WPSO altogether. We can already  
> store and edit such data right now (do it all the time), but there  
> is no way of displaying it in Panorama or doing WYSIWYG editing. It  
> always has to be displayed in another program such as a browser. It  
> just seems that is probably a simple third party engine for  
> formatted text that could be incorporated as has been done in so  
> many other programs. Of course, it would take work on Jim Rea's part  
> and I'm sure he has more than enough of work on his plate already.  
> It would be a great addition to aim for as it would help bring  
> Panorama into the mainstream and make the data much more exchangeable.
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