Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: RTF with .doc extension
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Oct 28 2001 - 16:49:27 CST
i suggested this before but ive given up on it. it was clearly agreed
among the developers that users should type the three chars rtf
themselves, and we could not think of a way around it that did not feel
like cheating users. You cant argue with best practice.
I think the rename .rtf to .doc hack has been clearly explained in the
documentation, although im not sure. You dont have to be a developer to
contribute documentation, clipart, templates, tutorials, marketing.
if abiword is behaving you should be able to override the automatic
addition of the .doc extension by specifying .doc but writing the name
into the box in inverted commas
"filename.rtf"
(if it doesn't then its a bug).
You should also be able to rename a text document as .doc but abiword
failed me a while back and i have yet to verify it with the latest
version and file a bug report (a game manual actually did this).
The flaw is not in Abiword, the flaw is that user dont know any better.
The only solution is education and i will continue to tell people that
they should rename rtf files with the .doc extension and Microsoft
windows users will be none the wiser.
90% of the Microsoft Word documents i get sent never needed to be in
.doc format, if it text then cut and paste it and send me an email (even
html email is better than .doc).
there is some feature to do wit the default extension (and i dont think
it is the autosave but i may be mistaken) maybe hub can elaborate.
It is highly unlikely that the devopers will implement this feature, but
perhaps you could convince someone to do it as an unnoficial
wrapper/plugin (it would simply be just another exporter).
gotta go, im on a dailup connection it costs money.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>
> Hubert Figuiere wrote:
>
> >>>We don't want to cheat our users with that kind of design flaws.
> >>
> >>I don't think it's cheating if you say what you are doing.
> >
> > It is. .doc designate Ms-Word file format, not RTF.
>
> You can call it "RTF with DOC extention (.doc)".
>
> Then you are clearly saying what you do. If some people do not
> understand that... sorry.
>
> Say what you do and do what you say: what can you do more?
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
> --Linux the choice of a GNU generation.
>
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