From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 23:30:29 EDT
--- Caolan McNamara <caolan@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:37:04 -0400, Dom
> Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > OpenOffice has given up on their RTF work in favor
> > of better DOC support. This is understandable, but
> > unfortunate, as their product produces/consumes
> > non-conformant RTF 1.2 while we do
pretty-darn-good
> > RTF 1.7.
>
> Just on this, I'm now maintaining the OpenOffice.org
> rtf as well as the .doc, and while its lower
> priority alright, it has more life in it that the
> last time the OpenOffice rtf issue was raised from
> abi developers.
While I have this opportunity, I'm wondering what
OpenOffice.org has thought about in regard to cut and
paste of formatted text between applications.
While making RTF file import a low priority seems
sensible, most software on Windows and Unix/Linux
that I know of also uses RTF as their clipboard format
when they need to share anything more complex than
plain text. I don't think .doc ever goes to the clip-
board, and HTML is certainly not an ideal format for
this either.
Andrew Dunbar.
> C.
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