Rich Text

[twister]

Rich Text pisses me off. I hate it in mail, i hate it in Office and i hate it in TextEdit. I find it to be more of a pain in the butt than anything else. So i've turned it off.

And i was wondering what others think?

Like? Dislike? Useful? Pain in the butt?

Maybe i'm not using it right. What's the point?

Twister

[simX]

Personally, I despise rich text in e-mails as well. I wish everyone would turn it off.

[nkuvu]

I find it to be the most effective when moving documents cross-platform. Plain text obviously doesn't have any formatting, so RTF is the next choice for cross-platform compatibility.

I despise HTML in email, since I frequently check my email from command line utilities, and hate seeing all of the stupid tags mixed in with the message.

I haven't gotten an RTF message in my inbox for a while, but I don't remember seeing garbage in with it.

So, twister, why do you hate it so much?

[twister]

I hate it because when i copy something from a browser into Office (when writing a paper) it is it's own size and font and sometimes color. Same goes for emails. I like everything to look the same when writing papers and emails. I dont want fonts and colors and sizes to come along with the text i coppied. But what pushed me over was when i was editing a text file and it opened in TextEdit. I edited it and it wouldn't save it as plain text. It got mad at me. So i got mad at it. And turned off the rich text. I miss simple text. But hopefully now this will work like simple text did.

Just plain text. Nothing formatted unless I say so...please

Twister

[fryke]

Well, I guess some users might find it better to copy RTF from browsers to other documents, but I'm with you here. I usually go through BBEdit when copying stuff, where there's only PlainText anyway. But I'm a writer, and I *LOVE* RTF in TextEdit. It's my main word processing application now. I'd use BBEdit, but I need things like Italic and Bold sometimes.

E-Mail should be plain text, always. Nothing worse than HTML-Mail. RTF is basically fine, only that people abuse it. Having fonts at sizes under 9 and above 18 don't make sense to me for E-Mail.

[Nummi_G4]

I do not like it... if I open an HTML page with TextEdit... and forget to turn it off... we get a mess. same deal when I am playing with system files Like when I changed the name of the trash can in the dock.

[fryke]

for plain text files like HTML or system files, use the Terminal and vi or pico - or BBEdit, which also exists as a 'light' version. Very yummy.

[nkuvu]

I'm getting addicted to RTF in email -- because I like bold and italics and specifying things in color. Saying type man foo is a lot easier than saying type "man foo" at the prompt without the quotes.

I don't change font sizes, and use a generic font for email.

I can see how it might be annoying, but I use BBEdit as well, so I don't get the formatting when editing system files. And it still is very good for cross-platform documents.