From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Mobarry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MS Word mode? Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:59:03 -0800 Organization: University of Idaho Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1itgqa0.fsf@uidaho.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036696245 28363 80.91.224.249 (7 Nov 2002 19:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189s3A-0007NI-00 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 20:10:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 189s3W-0004Un-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 14:11:06 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: brucem-98.ag.uidaho.edu Original-X-Trace: kestrel.csrv.uidaho.edu 1036695564 1511 129.101.65.161 (7 Nov 2002 18:59:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uidaho.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Nov 2002 18:59:24 GMT X-MSMail-Priority: High User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cdAUffhE67mOPqL31RfPJrddkCw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106822 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3376 Tiarnan writes: > does anyone know is there is an emacs mode to read MS word documents > (sent by colleagues), as ASCII. I'm thinking of something along the > lines of antiword, which produces text from MS Word (and even keeps > tables and so on). There's catdoc.el, (emacs interface to catdoc) which I've used in the past. It doesn't support later versions of MS word (97/2000) well, though. Now I use wv to translate MS word and excel. There is a helper script (wvMime) that you can call through emacs (and gnus, vm, etc.) included with the program to present the formatted documents as postscript, or you can use wvText to strip the formatting to get ASCII. If I knew how to write lisp, I'd like to write an elisp interface for wv. -- Bruce Mobarry