Document,text format

Question

Hi,

to my project i need document editor for many types of documents(tabular data, invoices, letters, some formulars,...) and i am looking for text format and editor to acompish my task

• is there some MS Word like format?
• I know for example rtf, I need formating, invissible comment will be veeery good
• open format
• same 3th p. editor will be good

I found some solutions, rtf is the most frequent

please have you same suggestions or personal experiences?

Thanks

Answer 1

Check ODF (Open Document Format) for a free and open document format that can handle text, spreadsheets and many other things.

See Wikipedia for references.

OpenOffice is one of the many products that do support ODF.

Answer 2

Are you looking for a text format or a text editor ? I guess this is a text format...

Many exist (other than RTF that you already mentionned) such as:

• HTML
• TeX/LaTeX
• nroff/troff
• Postscript

Many (more or less) wysiwyg editors are available for the first two.