Subject: Re: commit -- Re: PATCH: fix for overline in clipboard bug.
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 16:28:30 CST
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
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> > sam th wrote:
> >
> > Funny thing... I just read through the same file (RTF-Spec-1.5.ps anyway).
> > Underline is defined about 10 different ways (dots, dashes, double, thick,
> > etc.) but there's no mention of overline at all. I would assume it would
> > be something like "\ol" (and "\olnone" to end it), to follow RTF convention.
> >
> I've just looked through the revent page too and I can find find no
> mention of overline either. Maybe that explains why I could never find an
> "overline" feature on MS word.
i tried this also, on word 2000 (not mine), with no success. the help
files don't mention it either.
Will putting "overline" tags in an RTF file
> break file importers? ie If overline is only available on abiword, is
> there a way to prevent this from crashing other programs?
the \ol tag doesn't break the word rtf importer (at least not in word
2000) it simply ignores it, and when it exports to rtf again, deletes it.
have yet to test word perfect.
Have we just
> "embraced and extended" RTF?
it would seem so, although we have made our changes open. if we really
intend to do this, we should let others know, so that we continue to have
rtf as a truly open standard
> Martin Sevior
>
>
sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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