[Gambas-user] Html versus RTF format in TextEdit

[richard terry]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 08:52:56 jbskaggs wrote:
> In Gambas 2.5 I could not get .rtf files from Abi or Openoffice to load
> into Textedit properly.  But TextEdit loads HTML very nicely.
>
> Am I to assume that for rich text editing we are to use to HTML/XML format
> and not the *.rtf format generated by word processors?
>
> If Textedit can properly read and parse *.rtf how do I set textedit to do
> this?
>
> Because for now it displays all the style settings etc as text.
>
> For th time being I am using the html/xml format, but RTF would seem a
> better option.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> JB

TextEdit can only do html, unless of course you convert the .rtf to html on 
the fly yourself.

As a rudimentary word processor it works quite well using html, I use it 
extensively in my program, and just save my letters etc as html, which has the 
added advantage I can use the khtml (konqueror) control to re-display them.

The only annoyance I find is that one has to use ctrl-enter to get a new line 
without a <P> character, but I've successfully been able to embed pictures and 
save everything back to postres.

Regards

Richard