[EUPHORIA (#1998-23)] ".rtf" format
- Posted by Jeff Zeitlin <jeff.zeitlin at MAIL.EXECNET.COM> Jun 11, 1998
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:00:02 -0400, Einar Mogen <nord.staernes at ROLLAG.MAIL.TELIA.COM> wrote: >Jeff Zeitlin wrote: >>ISTR downloading it from somewhere on Microsoft's web site; it >>was developed by MS for Word, way back when. It's complex; you >>_don't_ want to try generating it directly if you can avoid it. >>If you're using Word (as opposed to WordPad), why not make sure >>that you have the Internet Assistant for Word, and put out HTML - >>Word will convert and print it just as well - and IE and Netscape >>and Opera and other programs will print it out without >>converting. >Is "Internet Assistant for Word" compatible with Word 6.0 (for windows = 3.1), >and is it downloadable from somewhere, or should it come with some = package? Yes, and yes - d/l from the Microsoft site - but I don't remember the exact URL. >>Next question: do you really need the extended formatting >>capabilities of Word or HTML, or would "typewriter-style" text be >>acceptable? If the latter, and you don't output more than 64K of >>text at once, you could just as easily use Notepad. >Usually the program will not output more than 64K, but it happens. The >formatting is not strictly needed, I've thought about adding it to save = the >user a little work. HTML will do just as good, but currently Word 6.0 = does >not support HTML, and there is no browser installed on that computer. = I've >looked at the specs for RTF (thanks for all help, guys!) and it does = look >overhelming, so I will probably not use it in this project (but it could= be >cool to write a texteditor that used Jiri Babors font routines and = RTF...) <Dumbass! - Me, not you!> Where _is_ my brain? If you're going to print plain text, you can just send the output to "PRN:" - that'll work just fine, even in Windows, unless the printer is a PostScript printer. >PS: has something happened on your Traveller-site lately? I have not = been >there for a while. Some new article updates, and there's a mirror now. http://www.tightbeam.com/FreelanceTraveller for the main site; http://w3.execnet.com/jeffz for the mirror - and the feedback and question forms work on the mirror, but not on the primary. -- Jeff Zeitlin jeff.zeitlin at mail.execnet.com