At 17:47 26/05/2015 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
I've got a book-length document heavily formatted in LO writer, which
I've exported to rtf. I'm trying to understand exactly what gets included
in that new file.
Surely all or almost all of the facets of your document?
When I open it in WordPad on Windows it shows what I would expect an rtf
document to look like--a continuous document, no page breaks, and minimal
formatting.
You are here describing not an RTF document but the ability (or
inability!) of WordPad to use and display aspects of such a document - page
breaks being a case in point.
When I open it in LO on Linux, however, I get a strange output with some
but not nearly all of the odt formatting that I assumed would be stripped
out when saving as rtf.
I'm not sure why you would assume this. RTF was Microsoft's "internal
markup language used by Microsoft Word" (Wikipedia) - so will surely be
capable of containing most of whatever Microsoft Word could handle (at some
previous time). In any case, it shows that the RTF version of your document
contains most of your formatting.
When I try to open it in WordPad in Wine, Wine freezes up.
No comment.
What I'm concerned about is what will happen when I try to import this
rtf into Scrivener or use it to generate an epub version.
Why not try it?
So, again, my question is what all is included in that new rtf file and
do I need to do anything to get a 'cleaner' rtf file.
By "cleaner" do you mean "corrupted" - in other words, with much of your
formatting destroyed? Wouldn't it be more straightforward to remove
whatever formatting is not required before saving (a copy of?) the
document? If you want no formatting, save as Text.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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