[Chris Shearer Cooper]

So then it should be a Microsoft newsgroup? microsoft.public.rtf?

Is there any way to suggest such a thing to Microsoft?

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Although the RTF specification is published, unlike the Word binary
format, it is still a proprietary Microsoft format. The Wikipedia
article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format has links to the
various revisions, including the 1.9 revision that was published last
month.

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:40:46 -0700, "Chris Shearer Cooper"
wrote:

Who does "control" it then? It seems like Microsoft keeps adding tags to
it, I don't know if any other companies are "allowed" to do that ...

"Jezebel" wrote in message
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Word uses plain text, too; but that hardly makes MS responsible for the
definition thereof. The main value of RTF (such as remains to it) is
precisely that MS does NOT control the standard.





"Chris Shearer Cooper" wrote in message
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Well, it's relevant in that Word uses RTF, one can generate tables in
Word using RTF, and Microsoft kind of invented it.

Also, any discussion of starting a new newsgroup must, by definition,
take place in a newsgroup that is not the correct newsgroup, yes?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Well, that's not something Microsoft can fix. My understanding of
Usenet
is
that any user can propose a new NG, but the NG into which you have
posted is
"owned" by Microsoft, not actually part of Usenet. In any case, this
issue
is not in any way relevant to use of tables in Microsoft Word.

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"Chris Shearer Cooper" wrote in message
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But there are no newsgroups anywhere - not just no Microsoft
newsgroups
...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Given that RTF is a universal format, not one specific to MS Word,
I
can't
see why there would be a Microsoft NG devoted to it.

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"Chris Shearer Cooper" wrote in message
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Am I missing something, or is there not a newsgroup specifically
for
RTF
questions? Doesn't it seem odd that we have newsgroups for every
other
possible subset of human existence, but not this particular format
specification?

Chris