Re: A bit RTF-ed off.

2016-07-09 Thread richmond
I was using 7.1.4 because I was attempting to set up an exercise for my progging pupils; and for various pretty obvious reasons we are working with 7.1.4 at the moment. I must find a 100% reliable RTF pumper-outer for Linux. Richmond. On 07/09/2016 06:13 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: As I assume you

Re: A bit RTF-ed off.

2016-07-09 Thread richmond
"What version of LC are you using for this?" I was using 7.1.4. I prepared the document to import in AbiWord ("Shabby Word"), and a second time in LibreOffice 5. Having said that: my last Stable release of my Devawriter Pro was authored with 4.5 and it imported RTF files that "Behaved themsel

Re: A bit RTF-ed off.

2016-07-08 Thread Kay C Lan
As I assume you are now using LC8 Indy (to that generous person, God bless you and your family) I'll point out two entries in the LC8 Dictionary which I know you're having trouble accessing: Under 'textDecode': It is highly recommended that any time you interface with things outside LiveCode (fil

Re: A bit RTF-ed off.

2016-07-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/8/2016 10:31 AM, Richmond wrote: So, I imported an RTF file into a list field and tired to look at char 3, but I have a feeling that the RTF was piling in as double-byte stuff as it didn't work at all. When I copy-pasted the stuff out of the original RTF file intil a text file and imported

A bit RTF-ed off.

2016-07-08 Thread Richmond
So, I imported an RTF file into a list field and tired to look at char 3, but I have a feeling that the RTF was piling in as double-byte stuff as it didn't work at all. When I copy-pasted the stuff out of the original RTF file intil a text file and imported that (as Text rather than RTFtext) ever