Simtel MSDOS 1992 December/simtel1292_SIMTEL_1292_Walnut_Creek.iso/msdos/ventura/fixvp.arc/FIXVP.DOC

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An occasional problem in using Ventura is that when you load a text file
and then tag certain paragraphs and/or specify certain codes (e. g., change
typewriter quotation marks to printer quotation marks with ^ Shift [ and
^ Shift ]), the original file is rewritten to show these tags and codes.
Sometimes you want to use that file for another purpose, and therefore
eliminate or translate the material Ventura has added.

FIXVP is a program which will rewrite files which contain Ventura tags and
codes to a new file in which is the following:
(1) All tag statements (@tag = ) at the beginnings of lines are deleted.
(2) Ventura codes, i. e., material between angle brackets such as <169>, are
rewritten:

The program reads in the codes and their desired translations from a file
called CODEVALS, which must be available in the default path. If it finds
an equivalent code, it substitutes the translation in the output file.

CODEVALS is a simple ASCII file, and consists of pairs of strings for
the Ventura code and their translations. As you will see by typing out
the sample file, I have only provided

169
"
170
"
197
--

So if you have <169> or <170> (the printer quotation marks) in your
Ventura-ed file, a typewriter quote mark will be added to the output file,
and if you have a <197> (an Em dash), two hyphens will be added.

CODEVALS can be edited by any word processor or EDLIN. Be sure to have an
even number of entries so that there will be complete pairs, and be careful
not to add a carriage return alone at the end. If the program finds an
incomplete pair in CODEVALS, the user will be informed, but the last
unmatched entry will be ignored.

For example, to change line breaks to spaces, add the following to
CODEVALS:

R
[space]

where [space] is just a space.

Consult the Ventura documentation, particularly pp. 3-6 and E-5, for
other possible changes.

There is a maximum of 50 pairs in the CODEVALS file.

If the word processor with which you regularly work has codes corresponding
to Ventura codes, these, of course, should be inserted as the second of
the pairs.

Codes in which the first character is a $ (footnotes, hidden text, anchors)
are written out on a separate line, with a preceding and following blank
line. The same is the case with codes the first character of which is a
F (typeface), a P (point size), or a J (base line jump). Of course all of
these with have to be edited in outfile by your word processor.

The user may also specify on the command line an "omit" string. Ventura
codes the initial letter of which occurs in this string are omitted entirely
in the outfile. E. g., calling the program with

fixvp infile outfile D

would cause all codes beginning with D (resume normal) to be omitted.

If a given code actually occurs in your CODEVALS, the substitution will be
made. Other substitutions (or omissions) are covered in the previous
paragraphs. If none of these apply, FIXVP will print a tilde (~)
to the output file, and at the end of the program will tell you
that this is the case. These, too, will have to be edited in your
word processor.

Usage: fixvp infile outfile [omits], where "infile" is the Ventura file to be
rewritten, and "outfile" is the edited version. Optional [omits] consists
of characters which will cause a Ventura code to be omitted if its initial
letter matches one of those in [omits].
Note that infile is not changed.

James F. Ross
CompuServe 70235,143