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> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > Abiword is less than competent at handling rtf files

> I frequently do rtf files on AbiWord.  I have never
> had a problem.  Perhaps MicroSoft has introduced
> "special" features into Windows RTF, thereby causing
> problems on non-Windows systems?

My problem was that Abiword did not display the difference between grey 
and black text, and I was supposed to translate the black only.

Abiword does not display the tables in WORD either.  Or at least not 
correctly.

Cetus free 1MB wordprocessor for Win98 distinguished between the colors 
(the 'black' was bright and the 'grey' very pale light bluish).
It was not usable for writing with because the screen displayed blank 
instead of what I typed - wrong video driver?.  Nor was Cetus text editor.

I compiled rt2html 0.2.0 for BSD (at sdf) but lynx does not appear to 
display the resulting colors, if they were preserved (lt&b?), and I don't 
have a working linux graphical browser at the moment.

> > Xvesa starts out with an X cursor, which persists in
> > some programs (xpdf?) but turns into a small arrow in
> > others (opera, xv?).  Why?
>
> AFAIK those programs have their own cursor(s).  Note
> how the Opera cursor changes from arrow to finger to
> line, depending on what sort of field it is over.

I noticed that too.

So a larger Xvesa cursor would not make opera any more legible.
Sindi

> Cheers,
> Steven