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 07:09:06 -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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407507029 20887 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2014 14:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:10:29 +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 16:10:23 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 1XFks9-0004my-PQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:10:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XFks9-00063y-5V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:10:21 -0400 X-Received: by 10.70.89.97 with SMTP id bn1mr12710524pdb.5.1407506946970; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:09:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.186.34 with SMTP id fh2mr12327obc.21.1407506946734; Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h18no16204785igc.0!news-out.google.com!eg1ni561igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no10219709igc.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 14:09:06 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206860 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:99136 Archived-At: > What is "an open standard"? One aspect would be that it isn't passed down from a for-profit corporation, but created and maintained by a group of volunteers 'open' to input from the user community. If the RTF standard has evolved to that point I stand corrected, but still maintain the gist of my above points still stands wrt the OP from a practical POV.