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Simple RTF editors are surprisingly few. The AbiWord project looked promising but the MS Windows version ceased development and other versions didn't get much
by morninglight 3y ago
Simple RTF editors are surprisingly few. The AbiWord project looked promising but the MS Windows version ceased development and other versions didn't get much love. I'm surprised that even a lightweight RTF editor has difficulty finding a place.
- jitl 3y agoWhat’s the use-case? The system RTF editor on macOS is quite serviceable, and the Windows one isn’t too bad either.
- morninglight 3y agoAgreed. However, it was nice to have source code available to work around minor annoyances. I guess most folks just live with what they got.
- Someone 3y ago> Simple RTF editors are surprisingly few RTF isn’t standardized and, reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format I get the impression there are fairly wide differences between versions. From the same page, it also isn’t simple: - files can use at least 18 different text encodings. - you can include Unicode code points, but if you do, they “must be followed by the nearest representation of this character in the specified code page” - if you want to create a table in a RTF file, it seems you have to include an OLE object - for compatibility with existing files, it seems an editor will have to support Windows meta file format. So, I would guess any simple RTF editor would be incompatible with a significant fraction of existing RTF files.