Hi all,
When RTF is considered as a format to share your documents, it is usually neglected the fact that every app seems to have its own level of RTF-compliance. Nisus' is extremely good, but when you open its RTF documents in different word processors one can see how format is distorted in many places (tables and margins are usual offenders).
I DO support, as I did in a former thread, the support of OpenDocument in modern word processors. I think in this case, to be an early adopter could be a competitive advantage, more even in the Mac where no real alternative exists.
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RTF is somewhat open
I suppose the one good thing you can say about RTF is that the format is published IIRC. It's an "open" format, it's just not open source.If you ask Microsoft, they would probably say that all their products are open to use as a standard, but that the deep-going code is untouchable by anyone outside Microsoft. Just my guess.
Re: RTF is somewhat open
I may be wrong, but I'm not sure the phrase "open source" can be applied to a text format like this. RTF is openly published, is made of text commands within a file, and is incorporated in both open and closed source applications.riccardo wrote:I suppose the one good thing you can say about RTF is that the format is published IIRC. It's an "open" format, it's just not open source.
I think the important thing is that RTF is usable by anyone who wants to use it, to write/read, or to use in a program.
Ryan
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