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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.
-