On 1/28/03 4:19 AM, "Rick Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Personally, I am not too keen on the idea of a Tools drawer and would
>> prefer to set paragraph and character style settings from menus or
>> dialogues.
>
> We can still hope for this. After all, the content of the menus is not
> visible. Maybe these things are there.
And I believe that Apples UI guidelines state that everything must be
available as a menu item. (I.e., you aren't supposed to have any thing that
is only available as a drawer, tool bar, or palette.) Of course, that might
have changed in OSX...
>> It will be interesting to see how Nisus promotes Nisus X's RTF support.
>> Since it looks like the first version of Nisus X will not support
>> tables,
>> it will not be fully RTF compliant.
>
> RTF support is built into OS X (you can read about this on Apple's
> developer site). So, unless Nisus Software has written its own RTF
> conversion utility (unlikely), NWX will plug into the system's RTF
> support, and that's where the problem comes in: OS X still does not
> support much of the RTF standard. If I remember right, OS X currently
> supports character and paragraph formatting, footnotes, and a few other
> things, but not tables. I assume that as OS X grows, so will its RTF
> implementation. At least I hope so.
Indeed, let's hope so! I am eager to play with this and find out what the
good folks are bringing us! :-)
Cb
cbrady @ tulane.edu
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