[Web4lib] Copying text from Word to Emacs/vi

[Stevens, Julieanne H.]

For what it's worth, I believe you can use Dreamweaver to remove the word based formatting/coding.


Julieanne Hartman Stevens
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 8:19 AM
To: Bob Long
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Copying text from Word to Emacs/vi

On 02/26/2009 04:14 PM, Bob Long wrote:

> 
> The problem is that when I copy the text from the Word document into
> Emacs, certain characters come out as periods rather than the original
> character. The biggest culprit seems to be apostrophes. But also include
> quotation marks, emdashes, and ellipsis to name a few others.
>