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Rich Text Format

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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. The simple example of an RTF file: 

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

will show as 

Hello
This is a little text.
The End

Paragraphs have to be explicitly marked with \par and {\b ....} marks bold text. This syntax is similar to that of TeX.

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

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