I thought about RTF. It is a markup language, after all, and I was recently able to write a REXX program that converts plain text to RTF with formatting including lots of fonts and a two-column layout (the error-message part of a friend's product manual). I may still attempt that. But I have no idea yet how I'd handle internal and external links, text constants, legal-style paragraph numbering and a few other items. Maybe I'm just a coward; everything I used on that other project I found eventually in the RTF specs.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The way to reduce the cutthroat competition for control of Washington is not to pass more laws, or even to enforce existing ones, but to take back the usurped powers now exercised from Washington. If each state passed its own laws in areas now under federal control, it would hardly be profitable for foreign governments to try to buy their own US president. And the smaller the unit of government, the more elections would reflect the desires of voters rather than the influence of huge donations. -Joseph Sobran */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 20:03 I used to save my documents in Rich Text Format .RTF. All the markup codes are stored in text (notepad) and several editors that use it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
