[OS X Emacs] Enriched mode - save to RTF?

[David Reitter]

Hi all,

I really want to be able to edit text (prose, not bullet points) and mark up some words (not just whole lines as headings) with M-o i (for italic) or M-o b (for bold), etc.

I can easily export this via "Copy to HTML", and import into Word - it's a simple copy&paste.

As a built-in functionality in Aquamacs, using some OO/LibreOffice converter is not an option unless I can easily include it in Aquamacs.  The PanDoc thing would work great as a workaround (it's not too big), but it can't reached EnrichedText, and 
won't produce RTF (though .docx is a common alternative).

There are some "MS Rich Text Format support functions" for XEmacs out there (dated 1999), which can export to RTF, but they do not work with current Emacs 24, even after some work.  No import either.

What we need is a Emacs-native solution that exports and imports a common format for formatted text, making and interpreting fontified Emacs buffers.  The export function would be analogous to `htmllize'.

- David




On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Nathaniel Cunningham <nathaniel.cunningham at gmail.com> wrote:

> Org-mode allows some markup, and has extensions for conversion to .odt formats; org-mode can also leverage the LibreOffice converter to convert .odt files to rtf (as well as docx, pdf, html, etc.)
> 
> --Nathaniel
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:27 PM, David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I've been using Aquamacs a lot to write manuscripts that sometimes end up in MS Word.
> 
> Looks like Enriched Mode does a good job of allowing direct markup of text.  It saves them via SGML markup.
> I can print and convert to HTML via built-in functions, which works well for exporting to Word.
> 
> However, do you know of any ways to export text or a portion thereof to RTF?
> Conversely, can we import RTF somehow and format text in Enriched Mode?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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