Re: How to convert plain ASCII text file to RTF?
From: Greg Shenaut (gkshenaut_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:25:38 +0000 (UTC)
tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem642b@yahoo.com> exponit:
> I have a file in plain text format, and I need to e-mail it to somebody
> who accepts only MS-Word and RTF.
If this is for a person who is using Microsoft Word, then just
put a .txt suffix on the file and send it as an attachment. Word
will import it without complaint.
It will help if the only newlines in the file are between paragraphs,
because Word will treat each line as a paragraph otherwise. If the
file is very long it's kind of a pain to do that. I wrote a small
program to do the filtering when I absolutely must send text files
to Word users.
Another fairly easy possibility is to put in html markup and a .html suffix:
Word should also import that without problems, plus you can do some
formatting & not worry about newlines.
And, as others have suggested, you can insert rtf markup using a text editor;
the best info on this is undoubtedly a book called "RTF Pocket Guide" by
Sean M. Burke from O'Reilly.
Greg Shenaut
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