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In <BzJ4ot.6vp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:
>I am looking at RTF (Rich Text Format, specified by Microsoft)
>as a possible  cross-platform, cross-wordprocessor interchange
>format for documents.   

If you are looking at RTF for interchange among a small group, okay.  
However, you might want to consider SGML as a more complete interchange
standard if you have a large group; where document life may be quite long;
where national language issues need to be considered; where content 
structure and order are important; and where other application processing
might be used.  SGML is more complex to implement since you would need
to define DTD's (Document Type Definition) for the application, but it
is an ISO standard and a major direction for text processing applications.
There is a newsgroup comp.text.sgml for discussion.
    
   

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