Re: saving buffer with text properties

[M Jared Finder]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > One existing format we want to support is RTF.  Would RTF do this job?
>
>     I don't know. Would it allow for user-defined text properties? invisible?
>     intangible?
>
> I do not know much about RTF.  I can't tell you.

A suggestion from an Emacs user, not a developer.... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

How about using HTML?  You could save user defined symbol properties as 
HTML <emacs-symbol> tags, and they'd end up ignored by web browsers, 
while common tags like <b> and <i> would work just fine.

  -- MJF