Subject: RE: commit -- Re: PATCH: fix for overline in clipboard bug.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 12:17:55 CST
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Harald Fernengel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > 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? Have we just
> > "embraced and extended" RTF?
>
> Hm, why don't we use the RTF \* Tag to indicate that the following
> keywords have to be ignored by older readers? Overlined text would look
> like this in RTF:
>
> {\*\ol}This is the overlined text{\*\ol0}
>
Great! That was just what I was looking for. Thanks very much. I will
provide a patch shortly.
Martin
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