RTFText, HTMLText, and Formatted Content in RR

[Wolfgang M. Bereuter]

On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 03:25 Europe/Vienna, Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>
> RTFText supports a tiny subset of the RTF file format. The docs list 
> the formatting controls in RTF that are supported by RR. Out of 
> something like 1300 control words in the RTF spec, RR supports 
> approximately 30. The support is so thin that even a fairly simple 
> book chapter -- which includes things like bulleted lists, code 
> samples, and four-level headings, renders quite poorly and unusably.

I have the same rtf problem since the beginning. Write and format in 
one tool and transfer all that without loosing the formating to other 
tools. Thats very important for writing or working with a lot of text, 
translations and so on. I have struggled a lot for the rtf feature in 
rev...
Now we have it at least!!!
I know its not perfect, but again we have it...;)
The biggest problem is -as always- M$. But there is ( I dont know) no 
other way to deal with formated text between OSes.
What I do is: I write in Mellel OSX only). It does good rtf import 
also, but I have not imported Word rtf files until now. I write in it
I select the text copy it to the clipboard
set the rev textfield to rtf and paste it to the rev textfield.
That works fine. Yes you have to do a bit of fine tuning with 
tabulators, but not the whole slave formatting job again and again. 
Nearly 95% of the formatting is correct here... (Dont know what happens 
if the text is very big, I paste only small parts to the rev textfields 
up to 3 pages)
Maybe there is a way for XML I dont know how this works...
The future could be pdf import..?

Hope that helps

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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