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In article <1992Aug12.040333.2209@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com  
(Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
> In article <1992Aug11.172502.393@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave  
Griffiths) writes:
> >In article <1992Aug10.132122.16546@athena.mit.edu> ray@mtl.mit.edu  
writes:
> >>However, it still  
> >>falls to the user community to hold developers accountable (why can't  
I  
> >>copy RTF out of FrameMaker????) and not tolerate applications that do  
not  
> >>integrate well into the environment.
> >
> >As for not being able to copy RTF, this is a problem also shared by  
that
> >other "standard" app, WordPerfect. The reason is that neither program  
uses
> >the Text object.
> 
> Who cares "why", they _should_ be supporting the pasteboard.
> WriteNow, FrameMaker, and WordPerfect are the only 3 NeXTSTEP text
> processing applications available besides edit, and NONE of them have
> ANY RTF pboard support.  And I'll just kill Glenn if PasteUp doesn't.
> 

This is precisely why we used Concurrence for our docs.  It was the only  
way we could generate the RTF(D) we needed for our on-line docs with some  
sort of automatic formatting.  Unfortunately, when we put our text into  
Frame for the printed manual, we had to go through and manually apply all  
the appropriate paragraph and character formats.  A tremendous pain.  Now  
if we could only get the MIF->RTFD filter out of NeXT somehow...

Ray Ghanbari                                
Digital Tool Works
ray@dtw.com