Re: hyperRTF?

Dan Hinckley <hinckley@netcom.com>

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On Sat, 18 Jun 1994, Nathan Torkington wrote:

> I see (comp.archives) that a cross-platform RTF viewer is now
> available.  Is it time we thought of turning those people who want
> control of presentation over to using RTF, and incorporate RTF support
> (with minimal extensions, possibly as invisible text or similar) to
> include hypertextual linking.
> Comments?

I think this is an excellent idea; at least someone should be looking at 
RTF to do a quick kill analysis -- is RTF suitable for the kinds of 
formatting we think we want in HTML?  Is there anyone who has enough 
knowledge of both RTF and ongoing HTML formatting discussions to 
comment/agree/challenge?