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Victor,

Great idea! It would be great to have one way to read and write all these
formats.

See my embedded comments.


On 9/13/07, Victor Zverok Shepelev <vshepelev / imho.com.ua> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm pleased to announce 0.0.1 (aka "early adopters only" release) of my
> Uniforma library.
>
> It's here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/uniforma/
>



> 3. For my journalism, I need MS Word output (I have no fun to do text
> editing in MS Word, but ability to generate it is a must). Now I use
> "TextileRedCloth)TMLwinword mytext.html`" scheme, which have
> several flaws. I want be able to easy define MS Word generator (using
> win32ole, of course, no hand-made heroism).




To generate msword docs - it might be easier (and more portable) to simply
write out the new xml form of word rather than using win32ole. I believe it
would still have all the same capabilities but just represented in xml
format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

And of course don't forget to add open office xml to the list.



You might also take a look at deplate for some inspiration, it generates
latex, html, and docbook and can read from a few formats.

If you set up a mailing list, let me know as I would like to follow the
project since this could be very useful as I need to be able to generate
many formats.

Blessings,

Jeff



-- 
Jeff Barczewski, MasterView core team
Inspired Horizons Ruby on Rails Training and Consultancy
http://inspiredhorizons.com/

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