Any better rich-text viewers out there?

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2 total messages Started by Kurt Swanson Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:27

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Author: Kurt Swanson
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:27

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I just installed metamail on my SPARCstation 2.  While generally happy
with this, I noticed that metamail doesn't have a good method for
displaying rich text format mail...  It seems only to try to use that
which is available with the standard shelltool/xterm/whatever...  That
leaves out color, italics, amongst others...  Is ther anything better?
Also, is the rich text format found on NeXT machines a broader format?
It seems to have definitions for fonts & other things.  Being that
there exists all kinds of fancy text viewers (dvi viewers, postscript
viewers, etc...) it would seems that there ought to be something
better for rich text...
-- 
Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
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Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
Lunds universitet.  Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se

Re: Any better rich-text viewers out there?

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Author: Keith Moore
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:21

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In article <1993Jan4.102716.12291@lth.se>, kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson) writes:
> I just installed metamail on my SPARCstation 2.  While generally happy
> with this, I noticed that metamail doesn't have a good method for
> displaying rich text format mail...  It seems only to try to use that
> which is available with the standard shelltool/xterm/whatever...  That
> leaves out color, italics, amongst others...  Is ther anything better?

If you have groff, you can install my richtext to groff converter, and
use the gxditview previewer to view richtext messages.  It supports
most of the features defined in RFC 1341.  Anonymous ftp to
cs.utk.edu, directory pub/MIME, files "richtogroff.c" and
"richtogroff.README".

> Also, is the rich text format found on NeXT machines a broader format?
> It seems to have definitions for fonts & other things.  

NeXT uses a variant of Microsoft's RTF (for "Rich Text Format").  They
aren't related and the similarity of names is unfortunate.  MIME's
richtext is designed to be relatively simple -- just enough to add a
bit of expressability to email messages.  As I understand it, RTF is
designed to allow interchange of documents between various word
processors.

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Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
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