What is the right stream for reading a styled text ?

Question

I'm trying to write a code for a text processing program..
It has to have functions to save the document and reopen it...
how ever I'm trying to find the right stream to deal with the styled text.
I'll appretiate any help and would be greatful if some piece of code was attached as an example.

Answer 1

There was a tutorial somewhere on how to write an rtf editor. It basiocally used a jeditorpane, filled it with rtf data and saved the files. RTF is plain text (7bit ascii), like html, but the code is harder to read and nearly impossible to edit manually.
here is helloworld.rtf:{\rtf1\ansi\deff0\deftab720{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss MS Sans Serif;}{\f1\froman\fcharset2 Symbol;}{\f2\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset238 Arial;}{\f3\froman Times New Roman;}{\f4\fswiss\fprq2 Arial;}}
{\colortbl\red0\green0\blue0;}
\deflang2057\pard\plain\f4\fs20 Hello, World!\plain\f3\fs20
\par }of course, all this is done in the background and all you have to see is the word-like document on screen.
dave.