>Number:         12971
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       patch: rtf-tools: symbol charset and column separation bugs
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 17 12:38:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ben Collver
>Release:        1.5
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I found 2 glitches in rtf-tools.

1) rtf-tools has its own way of switching between symbols and normal
characters when converting to groff.  This patch fixes rtf-tools to
honor the assumption that the \plain command resets to the normal font. 
This unscrambles the formatting of some RTF->groff documents.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/specs/rtfspec_16.htm#rtfspec_fontcharformat
only mentions resetting font format properties, not the font itself.
It also says that the default properties are application-specific.

2) rtf-tools specifies the column separation for every column.  Since
it is meaningless for the last column of a table, the tbl command
outputs messages to stderr.  This patch removes column separation from
the last column of the table to keep groff quiet.
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>Fix:
The patch is at:
http://amaterasu.math.orst.edu:8080/~sharpej/rtf-tools-nb1.diff.gz
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