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Many people think that RTF is actually an HTML editor for there blog or content management system. This is true to a point. RTF originally was a file format known as Rich Text Format. These were text files with special instructions for formatting. Each file would be saved with an extension of RTF.

Lately, I’ve been working with “real” rtf controls and learning the language so that I could create colored text on the fly with the C# programming language. My main goal was to show two text boxes next to each other and color the differences between the two. If anyone has worked with source controlled environments, this will pretty much be the same thing as your code comparing tools, but much more simpler.

I’ve been looking across the internet for help on RTF commands and usually end up on sites helping people out with the HTML RTF Controls. However, I have finally found some good sites for RTF commands and would like to document them here for later reference.

The RTF Cookbook Overview and quick Reference

Rich Text Format (RTF) Version 1.5 Specification

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