[sword-devel] RTF format

Joachim Ansorg sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:12:30 +0000


>At 19:16 12/23/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hi!
>>I'm interested to craete a RTF-to-HTML filter.
>>
>>Does anybody know where a format description of the RTF format is?
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/specs/rtfsyntax.htm
>(Best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer: select Sync Toc button and browse on down for the rest of the book.)
>
>To convert RTF to HTML, the easiest way is to read into Microsoft Word, then Save As an HTML file. The two formats are not conducive to exact equivalent conversion, but a limited subset of both might not be to bad.

I want to create a RTFHTML filter for SWORD, I think saving to html in MS word
isn't useful ;-)

>My approach is to always start with GBF, then convert to plain ASCII, RTF, HTML, etc.

Should I create at first a RTFGBF filter or what ?


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