15.3. Rich text and the Notes APIs
With the possibility of images inside of tables inside of merged table cells inside of sections, the structures used to represent rich text are necessarily complex. The tools for working with rich text are correspondingly complex. A detailed discussion of this topic is beyond the scope of this guide; however, the Notes C and C++ APIs, which you can download from the Lotus Web site, contain documentation of the “CD Record” structure of rich text and example programs for reading and creating rich text values.
You can do much more with rich text using the APIs, the C API in particular, than you can with LotusScript, Java, or macro language. Some examples of things you would need to use the API for are the following ...
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