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  Word Perfect integration Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-18 10:00 -0700
    Re: Word Perfect integration John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-08-18 16:51 +0000
      Re: Word Perfect integration Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 04:02 +1000
      Re: Word Perfect integration Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-18 12:24 -0700
        Re: Word Perfect integration Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-08-18 23:03 +0000
        Re: Word Perfect integration "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2011-08-19 00:21 +0100
      Re: Word Perfect integration Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-18 12:25 -0700
      Re: Word Perfect integration Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-18 16:19 -0400
      Re: Word Perfect integration Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 19:11 +1000
    Re: Word Perfect integration aspineux <aspineux@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 02:11 -0700

#11781 — Word Perfect integration

I have WordPerfect v13 which we are currently using for letter merges. 
I would like to automate this with Python instead of learning the WP 
Macro language.

Does anyone have any pointers?

~Ethan~

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#11783

In <mailman.177.1313685870.27778.python-list@python.org> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:

> I have WordPerfect v13 which we are currently using for letter merges. 
> I would like to automate this with Python instead of learning the WP 
> Macro language.

I suspect that learning how to integrate python with wordperfect will
end up being much more work than learning wordperfect macros.

Just my two cents.

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"

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#11793

wow, people still use WordPerfect?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:51 AM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
> In <mailman.177.1313685870.27778.python-list@python.org> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:
>
>> I have WordPerfect v13 which we are currently using for letter merges.
>> I would like to automate this with Python instead of learning the WP
>> Macro language.
>
> I suspect that learning how to integrate python with wordperfect will
> end up being much more work than learning wordperfect macros.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> --
> John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
> gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
>                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>
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>

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#11799

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.

~Ethan~

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#11817

On 2011-08-18, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 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.

I have used other software that had this functionality, but not so much
lately.  (Although it appears that PageStream still does this, which is
totally of relevance to someone, I'm sure.)

But yeah, that was an AMAZING feature, and not having it is one of the
reasons I'm so often unable to get things done in MS Word.

Sadly, Corel dropped Mac and Linux support, and I don't do real work on
Windows, so WP has been off my list for a long time now.  :(

-s
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#11818

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:24:17 +0100, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>  
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.

I take it you haven't looked at TeX, then? :-)

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

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#11800

John Gordon wrote:
> I suspect that learning how to integrate python with wordperfect will
> end up being much more work than learning wordperfect macros.

Possibly... but I enjoy coding in Python.  :)

~Ethan~

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#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

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#11838

:P

Personally, I use LaTeX, which fits all my requirements.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> 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.
>
> ~Ethan~
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

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#11839

On Aug 18, 7:00 pm, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I have WordPerfect v13 which we are currently using for letter merges.
> I would like to automate this with Python instead of learning the WP
> Macro language.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers?
>

paper letter or eletronic mail merger ?

What you need is :

- 1. write a "template" in WP with tag like <NAME> <DATE> <ADDRESS>
- 2. make a database with the corresponding data
- 3. replace tag by data from a database, and generate a new WP
document
- 4. print all these ducument.

1 & 2 are not programming related
3. Should not be impossible, look at the wp binary file if you can
find and replace the tag
4. More difficult: can you start a print job from a command line ? or
put all file in
a directory, then start WP and ask him to print all file in this
directory or create print job and
put them in a queue and hope WP will process the queue.

Regards

> ~Ethan~

Alain

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