RTF or not RTF? (was: New Developer Suggestion)

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@codeconsult.ch>]

Hi Marcelo,

On Thursday 10 October 2002 14:07, jaccoud@petrobras.com.br wrote:
> ...
> RTF is not intended to provide full rendering capabilities, it is 
> in scope somewhere between docbook and FO. It mixes style and content, 
> the illness for which stylesheets where designed.
>. . .

Sure, I don't know anyone who likes RTF as a format, it is badly specified 
and has many shortcomings. But so is life sometimes ;-)

The aim is to be able to produce *editable* documents from FOP, semi-finished 
documents that can be reviewed and possibly modified. Although many would 
prefere to use another format, it is a fact that RTF is widely used today for 
this task.

This has been discussed many times on this list already, please have a look 
at the archives for more precise info.

-Bertrand

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