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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.