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Author Burke, Sean M.

Title RTF pocket guide / Sean M. Burke
Edition 1st ed
Published Beijing ; Cambridge [Mass.] : O'Reilly, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 149 pages) : illustrations
Contents Index 141; RTF Tutorial; Why RTF?; This Book's Approach; RTF "Hello, World!"; Overview of Simple RTF; Basic RTF Syntax; Newlines and Spaces in RTF; Paragraphs; About {\pard ... \par}; Controlling Paragraph Justification andCentering; Spacing Between Paragraphs; Paragraph Indenting; Paragraphs and Pagebreaks; Double-Spacing; Exact Paragraph Positioning; Character Formatting; Basic Character Formatting; Font Commands; Advice About {...} Groups; RTF Escapes; Escapes; Nonbreaking space; Nonbreaking hyphen; Hyphenation point; The \plain Formatting Command; Unicode in RTF
Support for the Unicode escapesDocument Structure; Document Prolog; Font Table; Color Table; Stylesheet; Info Group; Defaults for some metadata fields; Preliminaries; Content; End of Document; Incidental Features; The {\*\command ... } Construct; Faking comments with {\*\command ... }; Language Tagging; Newspaper Columns; Columns and sections; Footnotes; Changing Text Color; Hyperlinks; Page Margins; Page Size and Orientation; Line Drawing; Embedding Images; Overstrike in RTF; Centering Vertically and Horizontally; Symbols; Styles; Styles as the User Experiences Them
Styles as They Are RepresentedRTF Stylesheet Syntax; \sbasedon and Style Updating; \additive on character style declarations; Generating RTF: With or without styles?; Tables; One Row at a Time; Building Tables; Content that Stretches Rows; Starting Tables Away from the Left Margin; Widths-to-Offsets as an Algorithm; Adding Borders; Vertical Alignment in Cells; Horizontal Alignment in Cells; Horizontal and Vertical Alignment in Cells; Creating MS Windows HelpFiles; Help-RTF Basics; Hyperlinks and Popups; More Topic Information; Images; Help-RTF's Peculiarities; Learning More; Example Programs
ADatebook GeneratorADirectory Lister; AnOrigami CD Case Maker; An RTF Metadata Extractor; Remarks on Parsing; Reference Tables; ASCII-RTF Character Chart; RTF Language Codes; Converting to Twips; Index
Summary 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 e
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word. blmlsh
Microsoft Word fast
Subject Text processing (Computer science)
RTF (Document markup language)
Word Processing
COMPUTERS -- Desktop Applications -- Word Processing.
COMPUTERS -- Digital media -- Desktop Publishing.
RTF (Document markup language)
Text processing (Computer science)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004300358
ISBN 9780596521691
0596521693
9781449367589
1449367585
Other Titles Rich Text Format pocket guide