Typical Conversions

On this page, you can read about some typical conversion situations, where Cyrk Text Converter is very useful.

From rtf to html

Articles, essays, stories, reports etc are usually made in a word processing application like Microsoft Word. You can use Cyrk Text Converter to convert these to html so that they can be viewed on the Internet.

But why use Cyrk Text Converter and not just save as html from applications like Microsoft Word?

• Cyrk Text Converter follows the standards and recommandations from W3C.
• For each paragraph style you can specify exactly how it is converted. For instance, a paragraph style named “quotation” can be translated to a <BLOCKQUOTE> section. Paragraphs with a certain paragraph style can also be translated to regular paragraph but with a “style class”, fx <P CLASS="example">. Then use a style sheet to present your document.
• Emphasis by italic, bold and/or underline can be converted to emphasis (<EM> and <STRONG>) instead of just italic, bold and/or underline (emphasis by <I> should be avoided in favour of <EM> etc.).
• It is usually natural to use a style sheet to determine the layout of the converted document. (However, it is not necessary if you do not want to).
• Text with the font Amadeus can be converted.
• Footnotes are converted, and the layout can be adjusted by editing the prefrence settings of Cyrk Text Converter.

I used Cyrk Text Converter to convert a number of essays connected to my PhD study.

From html to rtf

You can use Cyrk Text Converter to convert a text from the Internet to rtf so that it is betted suited for printing. For instance, you can specify text font and size, and not just for regular text but for headings and other kinds of text as well.

From simple text to styled text

Simple text (fx text from an e-mail) often has fixed line width, and the text is meant to be viewed with a fixed-width font like Courier or Monaco:

This is a small example. It is not very
long and it is very "stupid". But I guess
that it's ok--it is after all just an
*example*.

And now to something completely different...

You can use Cyrk Text Converter to convert a text with fixed line width to a text where text “floats” correctly. The result can be something like this:

This is a small example. It is not very long and it is very “stupid”. But I guess that it’s ok—it is after all just an example.
 
And now to something completely different…

Like this, the text is much better suited for printing etc. Also, notice that the character * is changed to italic and that special characters (quotation marks, hyphen, “...” etc.) are converted to something more suitable.

Mac/Windows text

Simple conversion between texts using the Macintosh character set and the Windows character set can sometimes be useful. Maybe you downloaded a text using the Windows character set from the Internet, or maybe you need to send a text to a Windows user, or ...