From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans BKK Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to handle rtf Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 05:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4edddfc4-a498-41de-810f-a8f9c8514653@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407501024 10133 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2014 12:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:30:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 14:30:20 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 1XFjJK-0003c7-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFjJK-0004gk-49 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:30:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.216.161 with SMTP id or1mr12698244pac.38.1407500793043; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:26:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.105.101 with SMTP id gl5mr203992obb.4.1407500792778; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h18no10175144igc.0!news-out.google.com!px9ni588igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no16144684igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <4edddfc4-a498-41de-810f-a8f9c8514653@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2602:306:334f:a5e0:1c7e:27aa:bf7e:4144; posting-account=IUdGewoAAACF9WtA3i8stuVyXNk2FqaH Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2602:306:334f:a5e0:1c7e:27aa:bf7e:4144 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:26:32 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206852 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:99128 Archived-At: On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:07:01 AM UTC-4, renato.p...@gmail.com wrote: > I need to handle some .rtf file, saved by MS office. I'm wondering if, I = can use emacs to do that, and, if yes, how. RTF is not an open standard, it is a legacy of proprietary Microsoft softwa= re and has had many many changing versions over the years. Therefore you won't find much interest among free software developers in he= lping you code tools to work with RTF, especially IMO in the emacs communit= y. Not saying emacs couldn't be programmed to do what you want, but you'd l= ikely have to figure out how to do that by yourself since the community's p= hilosophy is opposed to supporting this kind of format. As others have suggested, if you can't get the developers of your server-si= de tool to support a plain-text format like one of the markdown flavors, th= en you're probably better off pursuing support from one of the Libre/Open O= ffice forums, perhaps using their macro functionality. Hope this helps.