Re: hyperRTF?

Dan Hinckley (hinckley@netcom.com)
Mon, 20 Jun 1994 07:38:59 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> I see (comp.archives) that a cross-platform RTF viewer is now
> available. Is it time we thought of turning those people who want
> control of presentation over to using RTF, and incorporate RTF support
> (with minimal extensions, possibly as invisible text or similar) to
> include hypertextual linking.
> Comments?

I think this is an excellent idea; at least someone should be looking at
RTF to do a quick kill analysis -- is RTF suitable for the kinds of
formatting we think we want in HTML? Is there anyone who has enough
knowledge of both RTF and ongoing HTML formatting discussions to
comment/agree/challenge?