Rich Text Format Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

RTF (usually referred to as such) stands for Rich Text Format, a document file format developed by Microsoft for cross-platform document interchange that most text processing programs are able to read and write. RTF uses the ANSI, PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM® PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, both on the screen and in print. With the RTF Specification, documents created under different operating systems and with different software applications can be transferred between those operating systems and applications. The simple example of an RTF file:

{\\rtf
 Hello\\par
 This is a bold {\\b text}.\\par
 The\\ul End
}

will show as

Hello
This is a bold text.
TheEnd

In this example, new lines are marked by '\\par's, bold is marked by '\\b', and underline is marked by '\\ul'. A backslash '\\' starts a control code, a carriage return (CR) or a space will be used as a delimiter indicating the end of control code. Everything else will be treated as text strings. A group consists of text strings and control codes may be enclosed in braces ({ }). This syntax is similar to that of TeX. By using the control codes in file, a document with specific font, fontsize, or color of the texts, or tables with different border styles can be easily created, explaining its popularity among programmers.

The RTF format is the default rich text format for Mac OS X's default editor TextEdit and Microsoft Windows' default editor WordPad.

External links

• RTF 1.6 specification
• RTF specification - in many formats including HQX, manpages, rtf, PS. Also information geared toward translators. Includes versions 1.3 and 1.5.
• RTF 1.5 specification

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