From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 01:21:19 +0100 Message-ID: <8761kw58n4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87fvk012fi.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400890919 24225 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2014 00:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 00:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 02:21:51 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wnzig-0001cw-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2014 02:21:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wnzif-0007B5-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:21:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnziP-0007Aw-0j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnziG-000292-Ps for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp06.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.39]:39227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnziG-00028r-JO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp06.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79B998E12 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 00:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 21476 invoked from network); 24 May 2014 00:21:20 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.77.13.220]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 24 May 2014 00:21:20 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fvk012fi.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sat, 24 May 2014 01:49:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.39 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97800 Archived-At: > Really, what *is* the use-case for "RTF"? What about writing a letter to your bank? Or writing a short technical document that has to include diagrams? Plain text can't really do these things. Latex can do these things, but it's complicated. Whenever I need to use Latex I have to look at lots of examples from the internet or the last time I used it. Since I never write large reports using Latex it's syntax never sticks in my head. I use a word processor for these kind of things a present, Libreoffice. I'd rather not do that though, it's clumsy. If I had the time I'd help with adding RTF editing and/or word-processing to Emacs. Something I'm considering is using info format. The info makeup is very simple (for the GNU manuals it's compiled from sources in a TeX dialect called TeXInfo, but it can be written directly). Another possibility is using HTML. BR, Robert Thorpe