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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: .RTF files. Can WordPerfect be used to create them instead of Word?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 17:04:19 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.133649.8550@watserv1.waterloo.edu> 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.


Writing RTF is not any harder than writing, say, in TeX or troff. If
you really want to save the cost of WfW it is not at all unreasonable
to do this.

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