bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler) (12/19/90)
John R. Burgoyne <burgoyne@eng.umd.edu> writes: > Has anyone successfully created other than trivial .RTF > files using something other than one of the Word family > of word processors? tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: > >Indeed, the RTF format is ASCII, but there it's RIDICULOUS to think of >writing real help documents (100-200K) in RTF by hand! Right now, I think >WfW is the best bet. Hmm - I did just that when building WINFRACT, but then again there are a lot of people that would say that just confirms your hypothesis <grin>. The problems were that 1) I had already spent enough money on Windows programming for the near term ($49 for the WIN 3.0 upgrade, $350 for the SDK, and another $400 for the extra 4MB of RAM) just so that I could build a WinApp that I intended to give away for free, and 2) after many years of using WordStar (am I dating myself here?) had finally figured out what all the control keys did. Blowing another couple of hundred on a new word processor and then having to learn how to use it strictly for the purposes of writing online documentation for the silly Winapp was a bit too much to deal with. Anyhow, I grabbed an RTF file from the SDK, stripped it down to its essentials, and started typing away. Worked fine - all the ugly parts are because I don't write very well, not because I used the wrong word processor.