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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:29 ADT
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On 9 Jun 1998, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> In article <37A1271F2968D111BDC900A0C90644FA37AB91@pro3.catalystwms.com>,
> John Washburn <jwashbur@mke.catalystwms.com> wrote:
> >I was thinking to publish the paper in RTF format. This seems to be the
> >lowest common denominator for rich text without getting into the MIME wars.
> >If ther is a better format to publish the text in let me know.
>
> Any of Postscript, PDF, or HTML would be better than RTF. Although
> technically, RTF is an open standard(*), I don't know of any RTF viewers
> for non-Microsoft platforms. URLs to source would be welcome if I'm
> mistaken.
I looked into this some time ago, there is source available, apparently
for RTF tools for Non-MS platforms. I'm pretty sure I had (have?) an
RTF viewer/converter for the Macintosh.
If memory serves (been awhile since that Mac was even hooked up) the
site also distributed source for Unix.
I grabbed the source at one point and compiled it, but it required
libraries that I don't have, so I canned the source and just used
Applixware under Linux (which does RTF importing).
- From my understanding, StarOffice for Linux will also import RTF.
Try Yahoo's little page for the RTF format. I'm almost positive thats
where I picked up the tools at one point.
> (*) Funnily enough, at one point when I checked this out, Microsoft was
> distributing the documentation for RTF format, but the documentation
> itself was only available in Word format...
:) Yeah, that sort of thing gets under my skin. Not as bad as distributing
unzip in a .zip file though. Heh.
Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net)
http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe
the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens
above and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of
them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon
of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the
consciousness of my existence." - Immanuel Kant "Critique of
Practical Reason"
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