Re: Docs To Go and Abiword

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 21:31 -0700, Michael Ward wrote:
> On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:40, r coyne wrote:
> > (1) Has anyone ever actually verified that MS's (e.g.
> > Word's) own RTF output complies with their official
> > standard?
>
> By "their" I think you mean "the" official standard?
>
> Anyway, I was wondering the same thing. MS (and they're not alone here) is
> notorious for ignoring industry standards, in an effort to create standards
> that others will eventually (have to) follow.

You miss the main point. RTF is made by Microsoft. They are just kind
enough to publish an updated standard for each release of MS-Word. RTF
spec is Microsoft spec. Period.

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