>I'm ignorant -- doesn't WordPerfect read RTF? I only used RTF
>because more than a few applications can read it (and not all
>Microsoft apps) and it allows a little formatting without too much
>grief. HTML would be easy (and allow preserving formatting) but
>doesn't support page breaks or inserting headers and footers. Or
>does it? Any experts know different? I'd love to do HTML instead of
>RTF if it supported just those two features.
Hi,
HTML doesn't support headers and footers directly, but depending on
what you need, you can just repeatedly add the same code. For page
breaks, however, you'll have to split the docs into separate files
and maybe generate a TOC file. But that's not very complicated. I
used to be doing that all the time in HyperCard, and with RunRev
it'll be even easier.
>Heck, I'll do a version that just does text for the next time.
Maybe you could make an extendable version? Something like allowing
to add a couple of buttons to a card containing handlers that write
out different kinds of text. You'd then have a popup menu that would
let you "insert script" of the button you want. You'd have one button
for Plain text that maybe only changes all headlines to uppercase,
one for HTML that adds the proper markup, one for RTF ... and other
users could add more, e.g. TeX or xTags or what-have-you.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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