RTF Pocket Guide The Universal Document Format

Name: RTF Pocket Guide The Universal Document Format
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ISBN: 9780596004750

ISBN-10: 0596004753

ISBN-13: 9780596004750

Edition: 2003

Authors: Sean M. Burke

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Rich Text Format, or RTF, is the internal markup language used by Microsoft Word and understood by dozens of other word processors. RTF is a universal file format that pervades practically every desktop. Because RTF is text, it's much easier to generate and process than binary .doc files. Any programmer working with word processing documents needs to learn enough RTF to get around, whether it's to format text for Word (or almost any other word processor), to make global changes to an existing document, or to convert Word files to (or from) another format. "RTF Pocket Guide is a concise and easy-to-use tutorial and quick-reference for anyone who occasionally ends up mired in RTF files. As…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 156
Size: 7.20" wide x 7.01" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English




RTF Tutorial


Why RTF?


This Book's Approach


RTF "Hello, World!"


Overview of Simple RTF


Basic RTF Syntax


Paragraphs


Character Formatting


Document Structure


Incidental Features


Styles


Tables



Creating MS Windows Help Files


Help-RTF Basics


Hyperlinks and Popups


More Topic Information


Images


Help-RTF's Peculiarities


Learning More



Example Programs


A Datebook Generator


A Directory Lister


An Origami CD Case Maker


An RTF Metadata Extractor


Remarks on Parsing



Reference Tables


ASCII-RTF Character Chart


RTF Language Codes


Converting to Twips


Index