Subject: Re: [Re: [PATCH: fix for overline in clipboard bug.]]
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 15:57:06 CST
Hi Peter,
Thanks very much for this information! I wish I had it sooner :-(.
I had heard that MS word happily ignored "oveerline" as a text decoration
which for an unimplemented feature of word is just what we wanted. By the
way Adobe FrameMaker has overline. I will submit a patch to correct the
patch to put the RTF overline tag to be just "/ol" not "/*/ol". It is very
easy fix. I'll leave the "/*/ol" code in the importer because it
implements a way of reading "/*/XXXX"-type tags which might be useful in
future.
Thanks for your research on this topic. I should have looked harder
myself.
Cheers
Martin
On 21 Jan 2000, Peter Mcaveney wrote:
> Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Apparently the Tag "/*" tells an RTF importer that
> this is a new tag don't worry if you don't understand it.
>
>
> Nooooooo .....
>
> That's not really true. (See my post to the list.) I may have misunderstood
> you, but it sounded like you changed the software to display text inside a tag
> starting with \*. If that's true, it's a problem. (Of course, I could just
> open the patch and take a look but that would require work :-)
>
> RTF is extensible. Adding new tags is OK. Readers are supposed to ignore any
> tag they don't understand, just like with HTML. The text within is displayed
> normally unless you use that \*, in which case it is ignored.
>
> If you want to add a new tag, just add it. As long as it isn't already used
> you are OK.
>
>
>
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