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Word File

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:09

Word File

Word files start with a Header Section which starts with the following codes:

Userdic File

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:08

Userdic File

The userdic file contains the words a user has added to his personal spelling dictionary. It is used by the Spell program. This file is always located in System/Data and called User.dic.

The userdic file is a simple ASCII file. As each Psion ASCII files, it consists of a sequence of lines; each line is terminated by the carriage return linefeed (0D 0A).

The first line of the file contains a special header; after this, each word is on a single line.

Text Section

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:08

Text Section

A text setion simply contains plain text. It is a XListB of ASCII Codes.

Text Layout Section

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:07

Text Layout Section

This section descibes how the text of a Text Section is formatted.

There are a couple of levels on which the layout can be expressed. Most global are the styles. If available, they are described in the Word Styles Section, and referenced here. But not each Text Layout Section uses styles.

TextEd Section

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:07

TextEd Section

This section describes a text, with layout codes and other things. It is laid out as a jumptable to auxiliary sections followed by the text itself.

TextEd File

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:07

TextEd File

These files are for example used by the internal OPL editor.

TextEd files start with a Header Section which starts wih the following codes:

Substitutions

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:06

Substitutions

When this Psion Word document is translated to HTML, a special script scans it after the normal translation step, to create HTML code with cross references.

Targets are between square brackets and are not displayed.

References are between double sharp brackets and are displayed as links.

The title of the page is set from the first target name found.

Sketch Section

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:05

Sketch Section

This section contains the description of a picture. Its actual data is found in the embedded Paint Data Section.

Sketch File

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:05

Sketch File

Sketch files start with a Header Section which starts with the following codes:

Sheet Worksheet List

Wed, 10/15/2014 - 13:05

Sheet Worksheet List

It seems likely there can be more than one worksheet in the file format, though there is always only one found (so we have 02 followed by a single Sheet Worksheet List Element instead of a XListE in actual documents). All cell references at other places always have an unknown byte containing 00 associated with them: this is probably meant to specify the worksheet number.

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