Will do. Happy e-mailed me last night. We just have to see if she can read it. Watch this space.
Well, we haven't heard from SQD, which would be the proof of the pudding, but here's what we know so far.
1. I'm on a PC and Happy is on a Mac and we communicated just fine.
2. I used to use Windows XP and I know that it has no capability for footnotes or comments. It also is a .doc file. This being my background, I type my corrections directly into the text in a different color, say red. If I have a long comment, I simply use parenthesis (like this).
3. .rtf works fine between Mac and PC.
4. I was surprised to find that my .docx immediately opened the file in compatibility mode with comments readable in the print mode even though it was .rtf. So I learned something there.
5. Colored text worked. I typed some stuff above the story and Happy could read it. I tried different colors, too.
So that's where we are right now.
r/
Artemis
Wikipedia says this about .doc files:
Because the .doc file format was a closed specification for many years, inconsistent handling of the format persists and may cause some loss of formatting information when handling the same file with multiple word processing programs. Some specifications for MS Office 97 binary file formats were published in 1997 under a restrictive license, but these specifications were removed from online download in 1999.[2][3][4][5] Specifications of later versions of MS Office binary file formats were not publicly available. The DOC format specification was available from Microsoft on request[6] since 2006[7] under restrictive RAND-Z terms until February 2008. Following reverse engineering the documentation which was done by Sun and OpenOffice.org,[8] Microsoft released a .DOC format specification[9] under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.[10][11] However, this specification does not describe all of the features used by DOC format and reverse engineering remains necessary.[12]
And this about .rtf:
The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary[6][7][8] document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation since 1987 for Microsoft products and for cross-platform document interchange.[citation needed]
Most word processors are able to read and write some versions of RTF.[9] There are several different revisions of RTF specification and portability of files will depend on what version of RTF is being used.[7][10] RTF specifications are changed and published with major Microsoft Word and Office versions.
It should not be confused with enriched text (mimetype "text/enriched" of RFC 1896) or its predecessor Rich Text (mimetype "text/richtext" of RFC 1341 and 1521); nor with IBM's RFT-DCA (Revisable Format Text-Document Content Architecture) which are completely different specifications.
In other words, it was created by Microsoft so that a Mac could mimic Windows text writing.
