1. SPD update
I have updated SPD (Simple Preprocessed Document format), my attempts
to create a document formatting language. It now supports 3 output file
types,
html file, text file, and rtf file. I'll try to perfect the rtf format,
and
then I'll try to add more output formats to SPD.
The file is avaliable here:
http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/spd.tar.gz
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2. Re: SPD update
On 0, Tony Steward <tony at locksdownunder.com> wrote:
> jbrown105 at speedymail.org wrote:
> > I have updated SPD (Simple Preprocessed Document format), my attempts
> > to create a document formatting language. It now supports 3 output file
> > types,
> > html file, text file, and rtf file. I'll try to perfect the rtf format,
> > and
> > then I'll try to add more output formats to SPD.
> >
> > The file is avaliable here:
> > http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/spd.tar.gz
> >
> > jbrown
> >
> >
> Can't access you file. Put it on the Euphoria Site please.
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
I've just emailed Rob to put a link on his site. Also, I've added a
link to the
file here: www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/index.html
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3. Re: SPD update
Hello,
I hoping this post will help jbrown and maybe of interest to others who are
tuned in on this thread.
A couple of years back I spent a little time looking into the RTF format.
Here are a couple of links I dug up back then and I'm amazed they are still
up (I just checked 
http://www.cs.umu.se/~ola/sem/index.html
http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/info/formats/conversions/htm2rtf.htm
The second one might wrap in your email reader.
It was at this time I first started to use Euphoria. I wondered if there
was a way I could write my resume once and then have a (Euphoria) program
convert it to HTML for my web page (when I though an online resume was a
good idea - D'Oh) and to RTF so I could email it to job agencies who could
only work with Internet Explorer and email document attachments as long as
Word could open them. I kind of managed this in the end but with (shame on
me now) a C program called cvmaker.c which (for the HTML bit anyway) used
CSS (cascading style sheets).
Then I thought why don't I come up with a document format of my own that is
so simple I could write programs myself to convert it into other popular
formats like HTML and RTF (and plain text while I'm at it). This I did and
like jbrown I came up with my own suffix and name
BTF, Bland Text Format
At lot of the pages on my website:
http://www.readout.fsnet.co.uk/
have their source written in BTF. And yes the name is a pun on Microsoft's
Rich Text Format.
I've taken a quick look at jbrown's work on SPD and it is both similar and
different to mine at the same time. Great minds think alike ;->
Jbrown - I have a ZIP file of around 70k of source (Euphoria and C), some
DOS executables, documentation and example BTF's I'd be happy to share with
you. Email me if you are interested - you can see how I've put together
RTF documents for comparison with your code (although I think your much
further forward than me on many of the aspects such as colour text
functionality). The offer is open to others - if I get alot of responses
it'll go on my web site as a work in progress project even though I haven't
worked on it in a while.
Regards,
Andy Cranston.
At 22:18 09/05/02 +0000, you wrote:
>
>I have updated SPD (Simple Preprocessed Document format), my attempts
>to create a document formatting language. It now supports 3 output file
>types,
>html file, text file, and rtf file. I'll try to perfect the rtf format,
>and
>then I'll try to add more output formats to SPD.
>
>The file is avaliable here:
>http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/spd.tar.gz
>
>jbrown
>
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