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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
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Subject: Re: Exporting styled text from HC 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.031844.5754@sics.se>
Date: 19 Oct 90 03:18:44 GMT
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In <65598@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:

>In article <1990Oct18.142957.4954@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes

>>  HC 2.0 exports styled text by giving the style information in a scrap data
>>type called 'styl'. This is the official interchange format for formatted tex
>>on the Macintosh, but I haven't seen any program (except HC) that obeys to
>>these guidelines.

>MacDraw II supports 'styl' text. Canvas 2 supports it.  I beleive MacWrite II
>does, but don't have a copy of that here.  And a few of my own programs use

  You're absolutely right, both MacDraw II and MacWrite II supports 'styl'.

  Unfourtunately the old MacWrite format (which is some sort of standard in the
MacCommunity) doesn't support 'styl' neither does Word 4.0 (as far as I can 
see) or my favourite wordprocessor WriteNow 2.0 . So what's left?

<In another article Martin Gannholm talks about XCMDs that will deliver us
from this evil.>

  This is not a HC-problem. Rather it's a tragedy for the clipboard. IMHO, HC
is not the place where to put all these conversions: these should be placed
into all these nasty wps. They should give the user the possibility to
cut/paste in the "right" way.