'Pre-tagging' text in external editors

It used to be that we'd create the text in our choice of editors and use 
things like <I> and <I*> to turn on/off italics and so forth.

In the V8 manual I found a passage that said that angle brackets in text 
files are taken to be formatting with NO other information on creating 
text outside the program. <yeesh!>

So... after spending an evening italicizing words in text files, I come 
to find that <I> turns into something else once imported. Specifically, 
I have <^!U!IX!O!A!>, which actually _does_ turn on italics -- to the 
end of the paragraph!

When I delete that item, it pops up again at the place where I put the 
<I*>. Once I delete that one. I can actually italicize within the
program.

HOWEVER, after spending a shift italicizing in the editor, I'm loathe to 
undo and redo that work again inside V8.

My question: Is there a way to safely turn italics on/off (or do other 
pre-tagging) when using an external editor to prepare text?

I thank you all for replies.

Werner,

> Start every file with
> 
> @Z_STYLE70 = 

Worked perfectly! I deleted all the text in V8, deleted the files from 
the Navigator, and inserted the line above in all the text files.

Thanks SO very much! You've saved me ACRES of work! This _is_ a good day! ;)

This is one of the features I've always liked -- no, loved -- about Ventura.
The files are plain text, so you can fiddle with them as you like.

In one case I had to create an oddball fraction. It was nice to be able to
directly edit the text and adjust the vertical position of the numbers.

Hi,

Am Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:43:46 -0500 schrieb MalcolmO:

> It used to be that we'd create the text in our choice of editors and use 
> things like <I> and <I*> to turn on/off italics and so forth.
> 
> In the V8 manual I found a passage that said that angle brackets in text 
> files are taken to be formatting with NO other information on creating 
> text outside the program. <yeesh!>
> 
> So... after spending an evening italicizing words in text files, I come 
> to find that <I> turns into something else once imported.
Specifically, 
> I have <^!U!IX!O!A!>, which actually _does_ turn on italics -- to the

> end of the paragraph!
> 
> When I delete that item, it pops up again at the place where I put the 
> <I*>. Once I delete that one. I can actually italicize within the
program.
> 
> HOWEVER, after spending a shift italicizing in the editor, I'm loathe to 
> undo and redo that work again inside V8.
> 
> My question: Is there a way to safely turn italics on/off (or do other 
> pre-tagging) when using an external editor to prepare text?
> 
> I thank you all for replies.

Try this:

Start every file with

@Z_STYLE70 = 
and then write:

This is an <I>italic<I*> text

"@Z_STYLE70 = " tells Corel Ventura, that this is text for a Corel
Ventura
version >= version 7

HTH


have a good day
Werner
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> The files are plain text, so you can fiddle with them as you like.

Yup. AND when they were in 6 files, the *other* files were plain text 
too. So if you understood what was in them, you could wreak serious 
transmogrification without even opening VP. Twas awesome.

Hope the modern age is seriously capable too... ;)