On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, Robert A. Ober <[email protected]>
wrote:
I want to see the document like I do in TextEdit as a properly
formatted document without the formatting visible.
WAYRTTD? As you describe it, the problem is insoluble -- styled
text documents are stored as RTF ("rich text format"), and you
can't just 'hide the formatting', because it's intrinsic to the
document data.
But it's also not clear to me what you mean by "properly
formatted document without the formatting visible", since that
statement seems logically inconsistent. :-)
If you could hypothetically edit an RTF document without styles,
the tool doing the editing would have to still have to preserve
the formatting information that is intrinsic to RTF, and that
simply doesn't map into a plain-text tool like BBEdit.
Put another way, RTF contains formatting information that is
inseparable in both syntax and semantics from the text that it
describes, so you can have formatted text and a fully formed RTF
file, or you can extract the plain text and lose all of the
formatting information in a plain-text tool, but not both
simultaneously. :-)
R.
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