From: Reuben D Budiardja (reubendb@goshen.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 10:15:47 EST
On Monday 25 March 2002 09:56 am, you wrote:
> We comply entirely with the RTF standards except for internal use only
> (cut & pasting of lists, mostly) that the outside world never sees.
> You're filing a bug with the wrong people here. We aren't going to give
> people an option to save as non-complaint RTF.
Agreed.
> > 3.) Stop pretending to have Word export capability and simply have the
> > option to select whether to comply with Word or with the actual RTF
> > specs, and make it clear in the documentation that Word can read RTF
> > files, and they are often smaller than a "real" Word document.
>
> We pretend to have word export because too many people complained that
> we didn't and couldn't get it through their skulls that RTF was
> compatible with MSWord, no matter how loudly we shouted and how many
> places we documented it. So we fake it for now, and in my opinion, do a
> terribly good job at it.
I think you do a good job. For general user, or lay people (no offense
whatsoever), RTF is unfamiliar. I myself have to explain to a lot of my
colleague that RTF can be opened in MS Word. And I got tired of it. So, this
hack in abiword is a lifesafer. Now, even when I encourage and install
Abiword for other people, and they ask if Abiword can save as M$ Word, I only
need to answer with one word, "sure". No need to sing that long boring
explanation about RTF and M$ Word.
> Stick to the standards. Make others comply. The world will be a better
> place.
Yeah ... yeah. Agreed. As web developer, for dynamic sites for uses in our
internal network, I only designs it to comply to W3C standard. I don't give a
damn if the sites look sucks in MSIE because MSIE does not comply to
standard. I tell them to switch to Mozilla. We NEED standards!!!
Rdb
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