Re: Thanks for your help

On Aug 10, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

> joseph harris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> First, how close is rtf to html [it does remove the need to know  
>> html at al=
>> l, but I'm not certain technically of its closeness]?
>
> It's another Microsoft format, somewhat similar to HTML but completely
> different :-).  Renderers for it don't seem to be widely available,  
> though
> OpenOffice will read it.

If you want to see hat RTF is, open it with a text editor (BBEdit for  
Mac, not familiar with good text editors for Windows). RTF, like HTML,  
are both markup languages. You get a long stylesheet followed by the  
marked up text. I wasn't dealing with images at the time I was fooling  
with RTF, so I can't  say how images might be encapsulated. I can say  
that: all RTF are not created equal. Few people seem to know how to  
handle them (MS Word will open most any RTF). RTFs created on my Mac  
in Nisus Writer (a third party word processor that uses RTF as its  
native format) sometimes cannot be read in MS Word for Windows--dunno  
why. RTF files are also on the large side for the included content,  
FWIW.

**Shrug**

I never saw RTF as a great way to distribute ebooks even if its my  
format of choice on my computer (Nisus Writer rocks!).

dej

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