Re: RTF for numbered lists?

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Martin Holmes

Posted: 03/16/2004 23:28:50

Hi there,

Many thanks. I'm going to have to handle older setups, so I think I'll

probably just have to use \pn.

I really hate that MS RTF specification. My heart sinks when I have to

think about it. Viva XHTML!

Cheers,

Martin

Sergey Tkachenko wrote:

> There are two ways for storing lists in RTF.

> The first one is used in standard RichEdit and old versions of Word.

> The second one is used in new versions of Word (97+).

> TRichView can read both of them but saves the second one.

> Standard RichEdit can read only the first one - when RichEdit reads RTF

> created by new versions of Word all bullets are imported as text followed by

> tab (or sometimes convert them to standard bullets).

> The first (old) way of storing bullets/numbering is embedding them directly

> in paragraph (\pn keyword). For readers that do not understand

> bullets/numbering a text representation is saved (\pntext keyword).

> The second way: to define a table of lists in document. This table contains

> properties of all list levels. The second table is a table of list overrides

> (overrides some properties of list levels, mainly starting value for

> counter). Paragraph contains only a reference in list override table (\ls

> keyword). For readers that do not understand bullets/numbering a text

> representation is saved (\listtext keyword).

> So, unfortunately, Daniel's method will not work. It simply inserts text

> followed by tab.

> And new versions MS Word and TRichView ignores \listtext because they

> understand \ls.

> Search Google for "RTF Specification". The last version which I found was

> 1.7 (corresponds to WordXP).

>>Hi there,

>>Does anyone know what the simplest RTF token code would be for creating

>>a numbered list? I'd like to put a sequence of questions on the

>>clipboard in RTF format, for pasting into a word-processor document, and

>>the code I see produced by Word for numbered lists is horrendously

>>complicated. I'de just like something that's autonumbering with a

>>hanging indent, or failing that, manually numbered with a hanging indent.

>>All help appreciated,

>>Martin