This library allows you to display simple Rich Text Format (RTF) files in
SDL applications.

The RTF format specification is available at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/
rtfspec.asp

The showrtf example application relies on the SDL_ttf library for loading
fonts and displaying text.
The SDL_ttf library can be found at: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/

To make the library, type './configure' then 'make' to build the SDL rtf
library and the showrtf example application.

This library is available under the GNU Library General Public License,
see the file "COPYING" for details.

Enjoy!
 -Sam Lantinga <slouken()libsdl.org>  (8/16/2003)

Notes from Spot, this is how I got ShowRTF to display an RTF document:

ShowRTF -fdefault myfont.ttf mydocument.rtf 

And as usual, to install the linklib copy the contents of SDK/ to SDK:

.. Spot / Up Rough 2006

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                   76      77  98.7% -lh5- d620 Aug 22  2003 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/Docs/CHANGES
[generic]                 8466   23244  36.4% -lh5- 5a32 Aug 18  2003 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/Docs/COPYING
[generic]                  411     696  59.1% -lh5- c91f Aug 18  2003 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/Docs/README
[generic]                  526     912  57.7% -lh5- 6ec3 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/ReadMe.aos4
[generic]                 9647   29504  32.7% -lh5- 12df Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/clib2/lib/libSDL_rtf.a
[generic]                  462     825  56.0% -lh5- 6166 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/clib2/lib/libSDL_rtf.la
[generic]                  463     826  56.1% -lh5- 556a Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/clib2/lib/libSDL_rtf.lai
[generic]                 2384    5983  39.8% -lh5- ecc2 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/common/include/SDL/SDL_rtf.h
[generic]                  463     828  55.9% -lh5- cb80 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/newlib/lib/libSDL_rtf.lai
[generic]               410546 1114412  36.8% -lh5- b246 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/ShowRTF
[generic]               139953  139953 100.0% -lh0- bcce Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/Source/SDL_rtf-0.1.0.tar.gz
[generic]                 9727   29724  32.7% -lh5- 2495 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/newlib/lib/libSDL_rtf.a
[generic]                  462     827  55.9% -lh5- 1429 Oct 16  2006 SDL_rtf-0.1.0/SDK/local/newlib/lib/libSDL_rtf.la
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