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MMCONV
So what does the program do? Here's one person's answer...
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From: DALE SHIPP Refer#: NONE
To: TOM GREAVES Recvd: NO
Subj: Re: new user questions Conf: (66) MEAL-MASTE
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Tom,
Let me give you another approach to the problem, and the way that we
do it. I agree that the MM format is rigid in it field
specification, and sort of understand why Scott has made it so. If
we are typing in only a few recipes then we type them in directly
into MealMaster using its internal editor. That does at least do the
formating for you with respect to fields for the numbers,
ingredients, headers, directions and all of that. If we are typing
a large number of recipes in, I will use a text editor (i.e. Qedit)
and not worry too much about the fields -- just that I have the
title line, then the keywords line, then the ingredients, then a
blank line and then the directions. On the line about the title, I
put the string --MM, and after the last line of the directions I put
a string of ------ (at least 3). Once I have all of my recipes
typed in this form (and spell checked!) I run them through the
program called MMCONV. [just saw an announcement that Rodney
Grantham is releasing version 1.9 ].
What MMCONV does for me is to take my sloppy, free format recipe and
reformat it into good and clean MealMaster format. Here is a before
and after pseudo example:
--MM
Tricks for using MMCONV
Keywords: info, MMCONV, text, conversion
1 ea info
h special heading information
use version 1.9 of Rodney Grantham's program
I believe it needs at least one ingredient line
Notice how it does continue lines
The words ingredients and directions seem to have special meaning and
sometimes produce strange results, depending in part on where they are
located in the text. Note the lines above, and what happened to them.
This should not be a problem in a normal recipe.
Put a blank line between the ingredients and the beginning of the main
body of directions. There are other clues that his program looks for,
but a blank line is the easiest to type. The special heading info line
has an "h" in column 1 or 2, it may be upper case H as well. It does not
matter how long the string of dashes to terminate is. Three or more
works. In fact this is some times a problem that causes the early
termination of recipes. It would be quite legitament for someone to
enter a line of dashes in the ingredient or directions list because it
makes a decent looking separator. But MMCONV picks up on it as a
terminator. Since I am using Qedit, I have the full power of macros I
have written, spell checking etc. The line below is a single button
push for me:
== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==
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And here comes the converted "recipe"
MMMMM-----Meal-Master - formatted by MMCONV 1.80
Title: Tricks For Using Mmconv
Categories: Info, Mmconv, Text, Conversion
Servings: 1
1 ea info
MMMMM==== special heading information =====================
use version 1.9 of Rodney
Grantham's program
Notice how it does continue
lines
The words ingredients and directions seem to have special meaning and
sometimes produce strange results, depending in part on where they are
located in the text. Note the lines above, and what happened to them.
This should not be a problem in a normal recipe.
Put a blank line between the ingredients and the beginning of the main
body of directions. There are other clues that his program looks for,
but a blank line is the easiest to type. The special heading info line
has an "h" in column 1 or 2, it may be upper case H as well. It does not
matter how long the string of dashes to terminate is. Three or more
works. In fact this is some times a problem that causes the early
termination of recipes. It would be quite legitament for someone to
enter a line of dashes in the ingredient or directions list because it
makes a decent looking separator. But MMCONV picks up on it as a
terminator. Since I am using Qedit, I have the full power of macros I
have written, spell checking etc. The line below is a single button
push for me:
== Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==
I believe it needs at least one ingredient line
From: Dale Shipp Date: 20 Jun 95
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