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RTF Tools, Release 1.10 6 April 1994 Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu This distribution contains source and (possibly) documentation for an RTF (Rich Text Format) translation tool. Files in RTF format can be produced with, e.g., Microsoft Word, or on NeXT machines. If you have the UNIX distribution, the file Inst-UNIX contains installation instructions. If you have a Macintosh distribution, see the file Inst-Macintosh. The translators included in the distribution are listed below. Most of them don't do anything interesting. rtf2null RTF -> nothing rtf2text RTF -> plain text rtf2troff RTF -> troff rtfwc "translates" RTF into character, word and paragraph count rtfdiag RTF diagnostic program, used mainly to test RTF reader rtfskel RTF translator skeleton, for use in building new translators Each translator uses a tool which reads an RTF input stream and passes pieces of it to a writer. There is also a tool, rtfindent, which reads an RTF file and writes it in somewhat more readable form. This is helpful when designing a translator, to see what RTF files look like, but the output should not be fed into a translator. The main documentation is written in troff and is included only with the UNIX distribution. If you want the troff source, you'll need to get that distribution. For PostScript or RTF versions of the documents, look in the Documents and ManPages directories under /pub/RTF on ftp.primate.wisc.edu. Documentation in troff format should be formatted with the -ms macros for *.ms files and -man for *.man files. Release History: The release change history is summarized below. More extensive notes may be found in the files in the ReleaseNotes directory. 05 Apr 94 Release 1.10. See Changes-1.10. Major changes are additions of new keywords as defined in RTF specification version 1.2 (such as are used in Word 6.0) and "real" Macintosh interfaces for the Macintosh versions of the translators. 10 Nov 93 Release 1.09. See Changes-1.09. Major change is automatic handling of charset-dependent decisions and better Symbol font handling. See doc/mapping.ms. New programs: rtfchkmap, rtfstrike, rtfmaptortf. 01 Sep 93 Release 1.08. See Changes-1.08. 15 Jul 93 Release 1.07. See Changes-1.07. Most changes relate to recognition of new symbols by the reader. 15 Apr 93 Release 1.06a3. Released 1.06a3 versions of rtf.h and reader.c. See Changes-1.06a3 05 Apr 91 Release 1.06a1. Alpha release of 1.06. See Changes-1.06. Major thing is tbl support for rtf2troff. 04 Mar 91 Release 1.05. Lots of changes, most notably that twice as many control symbols are recognized by the reader. Also some bug fixes. See Changes-1.05. 09 Feb 91 Release 1.04. Renamed rtfAscii class to rtfText. Original name was poor since character values can be outside ascii range (> 127). 08 Feb 91 Release 1.03. Style reprocessing and built-in destination readers were actually tried in the balance. And found wanting. Fixed 'em. Put some actually useful stuff in rtfdiag. 08 Feb 91 Release 1.02. Added rtfskel. 07 Feb 91 Release 1.01. First release for FTP on indri.primate.wisc.edu. 20 Jan 91 Release 1.00. Project conceived.
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