From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T22:40:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and MS WORD

Leslie Viljoen schrieb:
> On 3/2/07, Vlad E. <poxvuibr@mail.ru> wrote:
>> Farrel Lifson wrote:
>>  > Have a look at the Win32OLE libraries. Rather than creating MS Word
>> > files directly you can automate an instance of Word to do it for you.
>> >
>> > Farrel
>>
>> Thanks a lot! I wanted exactly something like that. Besides, I seriously
>> doubt there's a library which works with MS Word files directly.
> 
> No, and as soon as you used it, the format would change anyway.
> Information on how to do with with Win32OLE  is in RubyGarden, but I
> think it's limited to Access, Outlook and Excel. Here's an Excel
> example from there:

More than ten years ago, when we wanted to programmatically create 
something like Word documents, we used the Rich Text Format (RTF). Word 
has no problems opening those documents. Maybe this is an option for the OP.

Regards,
Pit