Re: Missing descenders in Notabene

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Caballero wrote:
>  But let's admit that RTF is vitruously lean
> by comparison to Word. Just use an editor like TextWrangler to open an
> RTF. You might see something like this at the top of the file:
Well, anything is lean and mean by comparison with Weird. But
your example was a hardly-formatted-at-all e-mail. But here's a
moderately formatted doc in Xy:

≪OF1IN,1IN≫≪TP.5IN,1IN≫≪BT1IN,1IN,0.833IN,1.333IN≫≪WD3≫≪OP3≫≪UFCOURIER≫≪SZ12PT≫≪SY,0,0,3≫≪DC1=1.1.1.1≫≪SSINIT,ip=0di,0di,0di≫≪SSTEXT,ip=5di,0di,0di≫≪SSH1,md=bo,sz=14pt≫≪SSH2,md=bo,sz=12pt≫
≪USH1≫≪C1≫.	This is a first-level head.
≪USINIT≫And this is initial text; i.e., the first paragraph
under a heading.
≪USH2≫≪C2≫. This is second-level head.≪MD-BO≫ ≪USINIT≫And
this is the text that follows a second-level head.
≪USTEXT≫And this is the style for a subsequent paragraph under
any head.

And here is that same doc output to RTF:

{\rtf1\ansi \deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0\fmodern COURIER;}
}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue127;\red0\green127\blue0;\red0\green127\blue127;\red127\green0\blue0;\red127\green0\blue127;\red127\green127\blue0;\red127\green127\blue127;\red192\green192\blue192;\red0\green0\blue255;\red0\green255\blue0;\red0\green255\blue255;\red255\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue255;\red255\green255\blue0;\red255\green255\blue255;}\linex0
\sbknone
\margl1440 \margr1440 \margt720 \margb1440 \plain \margb2160
\margt720 \gutter1440 \margt720 \margb2880 \margb1440 \widowctrl
\widowctrl \fs24 \f0 \fs24 \f0 {\stylesheet {\snext0 Normal;}
{\s2 \sl280 \tx0 \tx720 \tx1440 \tx2160 \tx2880 \tx3600 \tx4320
\tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480 \sbasedon0 \snext2 INIT;}
}{\stylesheet {\snext0 Normal;}
{\s2 \li0 \fi720 \sl320 \tx0 \tx720 \tx1440 \tx2160 \tx2880
\tx3600 \tx4320 \tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480 \tx7200 \tx7920
\sbasedon0 \snext2 TEXT;}
}\b \fs28 \f0 {\stylesheet {\snext0 Normal;}
{\s2 \li0 \fi720 \sl360 \tx0 \tx720 \tx2880 \tx3600 \tx4320
\tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480 \tx7200 \tx7920 \tx8640 \tx9360
\sbasedon0 \snext2 H1;}
}\fs24 \f0 {\stylesheet {\snext0 Normal;}
{\s2 \li0 \fi720 \sl400 \tx0 \tx720 \tx4320 \tx5040 \tx5760
\tx6480 \tx7200 \tx7920 \tx8640 \tx9360 \tx10080 \tx10800
\sbasedon0 \snext2 H2;}
}\pard \sl280 \par
\pard \fi720 \sl400 \tx720 \tx4320 \tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480
\tx7200 \tx7920 \tx8640 \tx9360 \tx10080 \tx10800 1.\tab This is
a first-level head.\par
\plain \pard \sl320 \tx1440 And this is initial text; i.e., the
first paragraph under a heading.\par
\b \pard \s2 \sl440 \tx1440 1. This is second-level head.\plain
\pard \sl320 \tx1440 And this is the text that follows a
second-level head.\par
\pard \fi720 \sl320 \tx720 \tx1440 \tx2160 \tx2880 \tx3600
\tx4320 \tx5040 \tx5760 \tx6480 \tx7200 \tx7920 And this is the
style for a subsequent paragraph under any head.\par
}

BLOAT!

And _where_ can one find out what all those codes mean?
And by the by, I copied and pasted that, using Clip, from Xy to
Thunderbird with no problems whatsoever, on the Vista laptop. On
98Se, it would have crashed Tbird, I'm sure.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx