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<H1>wv library</H1>
<P>last update: April 27, 2001</P>
<P>Most of the following description was copied from the wvware homepage
<A HREF="http://www.wvware.com/">http://www.wvware.com/</A></P>
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<P>... wv library, the new name of the project previously known as
<STRONG>mswordview</STRONG>. Seeing as that name is far too close to
Microsoft's own product named
<A HREF="http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/wdvw9716.htm">
wordview</A> the library has been renamed to <STRONG>wv</STRONG>. </P>
<P>wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and
parse the word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. These are the file formats
known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6. Work is underway to support reading
earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext. wv compiles
and works under most operating systems, particularly Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS/2,
AIX and OSF1. It is (to my knowledge) very portable. I have reports that it can
be compiled under Windows using Cygwin32, and that it can compile under AmigaOS
VMS with varying levels of success. It is known to compile and work on all of
<A HREF="http://www.abisource.com/">Abiword's</A> supported platforms, which
there are a lot of. </P>
<P>wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of
converting them to other formats, it is currently being used by
<A HREF="http://www.abisource.com/">Abiword</A> as its word importer. Concepts
and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at
<A HREF="http://koffice.kde.org/">KWord</A> in their word importer. </P>
<P> Provided with the wv distributions is an application caled wvWare. wvWare
is a "power-user" application with lots of command-line options,
doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient are the
helper scripts that utilize wvWare. These are: </P>
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<LI>wvHtml: convert your Word document into HTML4.0 </LI>
<LI>wvLatex: convert your Word document into visually (pretty) correct LaTeX
</LI>
<LI>wvCleanLatex: convert into 'cleaner' LaTeX containing less visual mark-up,
more suitable for further use and LyX import. Work in progress </LI>
<LI>wvDVI: converts word to DVI. Requires 'latex' </LI>
<LI>wvPS: converts word to PostScript. Requires 'dvips' </LI>
<LI>wvPDF: converts word to Adobe PDF. Requires 'distill' from Adobe [Someone
do a pdflatex or pdfhtml version :-)] </LI>
<LI>wvText: converts word to plain text. Textually correct output requires
'lynx.' For poor output, this doesn't require anything special. </LI>
<LI>wvAbw: converts word to Abiword format. Abiword does a better job than
this, in some respects. </LI>
<LI>wvWml: converts word to WML for viewing on portable devices like WebPhones
and Palm Pilots. </LI>
<LI>wvRtf: a basic version exists </LI>
<LI>wvMime: can be plugged as a MIME helper application into your browser/mail
client; presents the document on-screen inside GhostView, while all
intermediate files generated go into the /tmp directory. </LI>
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