Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'behave': 0.07; 'received:verizon.net': 0.07; 'terry': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'expected.': 0.16; 'extensions,': 0.16; 'mso': 0.16; 'occasionally': 0.16; 'pythonwin': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:integration': 0.16; 'wanted.': 0.16; 'wow,': 0.16; 'looked': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'jan': 0.19; 'archives': 0.21; 'there!': 0.21; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.22; 'frustrated': 0.23; 'pm,': 0.24; 'windows': 0.26; 'module': 0.30; 'at.': 0.30; 'junk': 0.31; 'list': 0.32; 'does': 0.32; 'actually': 0.33; 'there': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.35; 'anything': 0.36; 'explain': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'went': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'header :Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'else': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'delete': 0.40; 'believe': 0.65; 'periodically': 0.67; 'taylor': 0.67; 'revealed': 0.68; 'camera- ready': 0.84; 'perfect,': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Word Perfect integration Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:19:33 -0400 References: <4E4D66E1.1050206@stoneleaf.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-109-121-73.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <4E4D66E1.1050206@stoneleaf.us> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1313698807 news.xs4all.nl 23940 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:56052 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11806 On 8/18/2011 3:24 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Alec Taylor wrote: >> wow, people still use WordPerfect? > > Them's fightin' words right there! :) > > Yes, we still use Word Perfect, and will as long as it is available. The > ability to see the codes in use (bold, margins, columns, etc) has so far > been unequaled in anything else I have looked at. Definitely. I did a book with WP and periodically went through with codes revealed to delete any junk and got the camera-ready copy I wanted. I have recently used OpenO modeled after MSO and occasionally get frustrated when I cannot see what it actually inserts, to explain why it does not behave as expected. That aside, if you are on Windows, check the list archives for 'office automation' or somesuch. If WP has the standard API, I believe the answer is to use the PythonWin extensions, included with the ActiveState Python distribution and available on SourceForge. There is a windows module includes in the stdlib, but I do not know if it has enough. -- Terry Jan Reedy