Tom,
Maybe...
But RTF has one huge advantage, it's very easy to create on other
systems, as it is pure text. The "file" I posted is generate on IBM's
z/OS. Maybe you can tell me how I can generate an ODT file on that
platform?
Robert
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Robert AH Prins
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On 15 March 2013 00:11, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi :)
> MS developed Rtf making all the promises about cross-platform and
> cross-product compatibility that are currently being made for their ISO
> format. Unfortunately they never quite lived up to those promises and got
> taken to court about it and lost the case. So they stopped developing it
> and created the OOXML and got that registered as an ISO standard instead.
> Now people seem to be having similar problems with the new OOXML formats
> that they had with the Rtf, perhaps even more problems.
>
> So, just avoid Rtf. It always was a broken, proprietary format and even
> though MS have stopped doing any development of it there still hasn't been
> any improvement in it's compatibility.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: prino <rob...@prino.org>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013, 21:47
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] BUG: Writer seems to ignore some "\par" in RTF
> file
>
> If you open the following, name it "whatever.rtf"
>
> === CUT ===
> {\rtf1\ansi\deff0
> {\fonttbl
> {\f0\fmodern\fcharset0\fprq1 Courier New;}}
> \paperw16840\paperh11907\margl709\margr709\margt1418\margb567
> \lndscpsxn
> \cols2\colsx709
> \pard\plain
> \sl-140\slmult0\fs14
> {\b Rows\par}{
> \par
> +------+\par
> | Row |\par
> +------+\par
> | 1 |\par
> | 60 |\par
> +------+\par
> \column
> \par
> \par
> +------+\par
> | Row |\par
> +------+\par
> | 61 |\par
> | 120 |\par
> +------+\par
> \column
> \par
> \par
> +------+\par
> | Row |\par
> +------+\par
> | 121 |\par
> +------+\par
> | Tot |\par
> +------+\par
> }}
> === CUT ===
>
> in Word, it will correctly put two blank lines above the second and third
> column. Open it in Writer (4.0.1.2) and there will be only *one* blank line
> above columns two and three.
>
> Not good!
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