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Subject:Re: RTF help text & Neuron Data From:Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 May 1994 15:36:00 PDT
Not sure I understand exactly what you want, but I never let details like
that stand in the way ... <g>. About RTF:
1) Various Microsoft referecence books for Word for Windows list contain
the RTF spec in an Appendix. Unfortunately, I can't lay my hands on
the exact book from which I got mine, but if you go down to the
bookstore and browse through the books in the WinWord section, you
should be able to find something. (he said hopefully)
2) A cheap and cheerful way to get an inkling of RTF format is to
create a simple doc and export it as RTF. (I'm assuming, probably
incorrectly, that you have access to such a program.) For example,
PageMaker and WinWord can save as RTF, as can a host of other
text-processing programs. This isn't the clearest way in the world
to learn RTF, but you might at least be able to test with or against
what Neuron Data.
Hope this helps,
-- Mike Pope
mikep -at- asymetrix -dot- com
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>From: TECHWR-L
>To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
s>Subject: RTF help text & Neuron Data
>Date: Thursday, May 05, 1994 10:54AM
>Can anyone tell me what the RFT (rich text format) tagging conventions
>are and what they mean? Or, tell me where to get that info?
>Right now, I want to do this but it's subject to change:
>1) understand how Neuron Data (N.D.=a software development package) expects
> for tags on the help files that accompany its software. (I can
> get this "understanding" by looking at N.D. online help development
> examples.) (The N.D. salespeople *say* that their help files are
> in RTF format and they *say* I can use Word to enter text and
> output RTF files that the Neuron Data help environment understands.)
>2) understand the tagging conventions that RTF produces
>3) find out if 1) and 2) are significantly different.
>4) find out if Neuron Data's help authoring tools are decent or whether
> to use another help authoring tool (ForeHelp, or Doc-to-Help, whatever).
>5) if I use another help authoring tool, is its output usable in
> Neuron Data environment.
>So, what I'm asking TECHWR-L for is info. about 2) above.
>(Can anyone dissuade me that the items 1) to 5) are unnecessary work and
>overkill and that there's an easier way to figure out what help
>authoring tools to use?)
>Thanks!
>_____________________________________________________________
>Kay Wicker Documentation Specialist
>St. Paul Software, Inc. St. Paul, MN U.S.A.
>kayw -at- spedi -dot- mn -dot- org voice 612-641-0963 fax 612-641-0609
