Hi List!
I mentioned I had been having problems with rtf files
that I uploaded from my Mac. The problem was that all
the characters á é í ó ú ý ð þ etc, looked terrible
when viewed from a Windows machine! Well, I think I
found out how to fix it. If you want to look at the new
file I just uploaded, called "~Krákumál_FJ.rtf", you
will see (at least it now does from mine) that it looks
fine if you have WinWord installed. Please report back
any problems you might have.
*.rtf is a better format than *.doc
That is because anybody with WinWord can also
read the *.rtf format. But in addition to that
there are many users who don't have WinWord,
who can also read the *.rtf format, but who cannot
read the *.doc format.
Of course it isn't perfect. But I heard that there exist
editors that run on Linux or BSD that can read the rtf files.
There must also exist converters that for example can create
html files from rtf files. And they do this automatically.
I will try to see if there is a simpe way to do it.
(such as using cut and paste into an editor that saves
formmatted text as html code)
The rtf format is really simple. I looked into it a bit.
Here are some of the commands:
\i = italic
\b = bold
\par = paragraph
\tab = tab
\page = page break
\qc = center text
\sl-300 = line spacing at 15 points
\'e1 = á
\'e9 = é
\'ed = í
\'f3 = ó
\'fa = ú
\'fd = ý
\'f0 = ð
\'fe = þ
The advantage is that all special characters are given
7-bit ascii codes. Hence no distortion when passing through
unknown servers, because everything is 7-bit!