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On 1/13/11 9:33 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Randy Brukardt wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> It would be useful to note that .rtf files are less stable than .doc files.
>> We continued to have bizarre formatting problems with the Ada standard until
>> someone noticed that they went away if we took the .rtf files and resaved
>> them as .doc files. Moreover, an attempt to save the files as .rtf crashes
>> Word (all versions that I've tried). But even with those problems, it's a
>> whole lot easier to write .rtf and generate .pdf from that than to try to do
>> it in one step.

> Personally I would have chosen Texinfo, TeX, LaTeX or DocBooc instead
> of RTF.  These formats are not ISO standards but they are stable and
> open.  It is possible that generating HTML and PDF from such sources
> was not yet an option in 1998, though.

DITA  (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is worth mentioning.
It is unlike the book centric macros, and unlike DocBook.
DITA, offering a very simple set of element definitions (XML), is built
around the notions of a topic, how to connect topics, and how to
specialize a general topic (concepts, how-tos, step-by-step
instructions, ...).
I have never needed to specialize what is already there, though.

"The point of the XML-based Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
  is to create modular technical documents that are easy to reuse with
  varied display and delivery mechanisms, such as helpsets, manuals,
  hierarchical summaries for small-screen devices, and so on."

   (From "Specializing topic types in DITA",
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita2/ )

Editing software can output to all kinds of files, including .odt.