But that point is only semi-relevant to my point. I provide it only as background.
One of the approaches I tried was to save the Word file in RTF. While not an industry standard, RTF is at least well-documented and supported quite well by every major (and most minor) word processor on the market. Since RR has an RTFText property for fields, I decided to give it a go.
RTFText supports a tiny subset of the RTF file format. The docs list the formatting controls in RTF that are supported by RR. Out of something like 1300 control words in the RTF spec, RR supports approximately 30. The support is so thin that even a fairly simple book chapter -- which includes things like bulleted lists, code samples, and four-level headings, renders quite poorly and unusably.
That's OK. The docs are quite clear, so you know what you're getting. I'm hoping someday the RR team or some third party will get around to a serious RTF control because, candidly, using nicely formatted text in RR fields is virtually impossible at the moment, which makes it a poor medium for me to use for my project.
The RTFText docs say, "To export and re-import field information without losing any style information, use the htmlText property instead."
So I tried that. I opened an RTF file and set the htmlText of a field to the contents of that file. Imagine my surprise when I not only didn't see a formatted version of my chapter text, but instead I saw only RTF commands. And at that, only a small number of them from the first few dozen lines of the RTF file.
On reflection, I should not have been surprised. After all, setting the htmlText of a field should probably only work if I open a file containing HTML and read it, right? That does work, at least marginally well and within the constraints of htmlText property as spelled out in the docs.
My reluctant conclusion is that applications that rely heavily on richly formatted text are not a candidate for RR development. That's a HUGE disappointment but the good news is those aren't the only kinds of apps I'm interested in building.
Back to the drawing board.
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