Alan Horkan wrote: > i suggested this before but ive given up on it. it was clearly agreed > among the developers that users should type the three chars rtf > themselves, and we could not think of a way around it that did not feel > like cheating users. You cant argue with best practice. > > I think the rename .rtf to .doc hack has been clearly explained in the > documentation, although im not sure. You dont have to be a developer to > contribute documentation, clipart, templates, tutorials, marketing. > > if abiword is behaving you should be able to override the automatic > addition of the .doc extension by specifying .doc but writing the name > into the box in inverted commas > "filename.rtf"
This is a very good idea. I tested it with Abi 0.9.4.1 and it doesn't work with quotes (the filename is written with quotes), but it works without quotes! So I simply make a file "filename.doc" and save it with the RTF format. It is not renamed to "filename.doc.rtf" or "filename.rtf" as I would expect. This is really good. The only thing I maybe miss, is an option like "save default in ... format " in the preferences. > (if it doesn't then its a bug) > You should also be able to rename a text document as .doc but abiword > failed me a while back and i have yet to verify it with the latest > version and file a bug report (a game manual actually did this). > > The flaw is not in Abiword, the flaw is that user dont know any better. > The only solution is education and i will continue to tell people that > they should rename rtf files with the .doc extension and Microsoft > windows users will be none the wiser. > > 90% of the Microsoft Word documents i get sent never needed to be in > doc format, if it text then cut and paste it and send me an email (even > html email is better than .doc). This is the same for me, but in an office where people are working together it's different. > there is some feature to do wit the default extension (and i dont think > it is the autosave but i may be mistaken) maybe hub can elaborate. Would be interesting. Not a default extention, but a default format. > It is highly unlikely that the devopers will implement this feature, but > perhaps you could convince someone to do it as an unnoficial > wrapper/plugin (it would simply be just another exporter). > > gotta go, im on a dailup connection it costs money. > > Sincerely > Alan Horkan With regards, Paul van der Vlis. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
