This interested me: > If, on the other hand, you are regularly updating and > returning Word files to other people then I don't see any choice other > than to have a copy of Word and make sure it is at the same level as the > other person - unless you can arrange an exchange of documents in > another mutually readable format like RTF (although this is still open > to interpretation). Since Microsoft have control of the .doc format and > are continually tweaking it to give them the edge nothing will ever be > fully compatible.
To what extent are the word processor wars worsened by people not learning the common courtesy of saving texts in RTF before sending to someone outside their IT department's purview? Why should someone expect that the document that they have in hand will work on someone else's computer? From the early days of computers, people used differing software products, not to mention different computers and operating systems. I quickly learned to be careful asking what documents the person I was communicating with could read. Rich Text Format has worked pretty well to increase communications. It was designed, was it not, to work between platforms and programs? And yet most people seem not to know what it is. I've explained the basics of RTF to people for years. I don't know how many benighted Windows users I've instructed into saving their documents as RTF. My question is this: is there software out there that provides word processing WITHIN the RTF format? It seems like this could be done, and done simply. A basic word processor that utilizes RTF tag marks to do its basic work would be really great. Adding a good dictionary, thesaurus, and grammar checker should be no great difficulty. Is there something like this? t -- Signwave Finder Mail 0.5a - http://www.signwave.co.uk/ -- MaX-list is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> MaX-list info: <http://lowendmac.com/linux/max.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/max-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
