[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Paul Sture]

In article <hi04ah$ugb$03$1 at news.t-online.com>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> Paul Sture schrieb:
> 
> > One of the best extras the Hobbyist Licenses gave me was the ability to 
> > run DECwrite. It was very satisfying having a document template which 
> > you could use to knock out Digital style manuals.
> 
> Just a crazy idea:
> Would it be possible with those templates to recreate
> antique DEC manuals which have only survived on paper?
> I'm somewhat annoyed from those low quality scanned
> monster PDFs (although it's a good thing somebody
> rescued them, of course).
> Maybe one could OCR the scans and insert the raw text
> in the templates?

It sounds a nice idea, but an awful lot of work. I once had a go at
converting the FMS documentation from BookReader format to PDF by 
copying and pasting and it was a tedious process, to say the least
(though by picking the graphical figures out separately, they did
print correctly, which printing direct from BookReader didn't do very
well).
 
> > Hmm, has anyone converted those (or DEC Document) templates for use with 
> > other word processors?

-- 
Paul Sture