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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.0: Initial Reactions
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Date: 18 Dec 90 03:10:00 GMT
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In article <371@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
>I think that the best idea about Rich Text got lost in the shuffle.
>I think it was from Mike Dixon at PARCplace.  The idea was to put the
>plain text first, then have a trailer with the RTF commands and some
>byte offsets into the plain text where they should be applied.
>[...] There
>is one glitch I can think of, though, which is what you do when you
>want to include somebody else's post in yours, and you add > characters
>and all the offsets change.

The way to handle that is that the whole editor and all routines work
with RTF. Only for postings or for reading in posting there should be
a conversion in one or the other direction. Then the rest should work
transparently. 

>Anyway, I think that is the perfect solution for the RTF newsreader,
>and it will hardly add any bandwidth.  Anybody else remember that posting?

I remember and fully agree.

Ronald

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