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Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net> wrote:
(2002/06/14 03:37:00)


>Perhaps, but it lacks one very salient ingrediant. It doesn't
>have community consensus as W3C html does. And, as has been
>noted, the only accessible authoring tools which produce RTF are
>on Windows. So, I'm disappointed by Book Share on this point.
>
>Perhaps it generates better looking text. But, I don't believe
>RTF supports structure quite markup anywhere as well as html
>does. Since Book Share supports DAISY, at least in theory, it
>would seem that structural markup should win out over good looks.
>
Not entirely true , rtf is also handled by non-MS systems , also it should be possible to provide direct parsing in text to speech systems and in drivers for electromechanical character-cell displays 
Another candidate is .pwd wich is ANSI-based and used on the PocketPC platform 
Comments welcome 

k





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