Re: Jade RTF and Winhelp

["Wayne Richards" <WRichards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The problem I hit is that the Jade RTF backend resolutely (and rightly,
> > I suppose) refuses to let you slide any '\' characters into the output
> > stream yourself, and as far as I know it doesn't have flow objects which
> > will generate the RTF codes Winhelp requires.  
> 
> Along these lines, has anyone developed a patch for Jade that
> will let one output an arbitrary hunk of RTF?  That would seem
> like one general approach to this problem (I have a couple of
> other things in mind, too).
> 
> As I recall, there's a similar extension in the SGML back-end,
> though it's name escapes me at the moment.
> 
> --norm

I've been contemplating a 2-pass scenario: Jade does the first pass 
generating special markers for missing Winhelp code. Then a Word 
template macro does the second pass, changing the markers to the 
correct format.

Maybe something like "{footnote # ...}" gets output by Jade, then 
Word translates that to a # footnote.  "{du ...}" -> 
double-underlined text, etc.

Wayne
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