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:
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>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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