1. What is rtftoweb?

rtftoweb
is an extension to Chris Hector's very excellent rtftohtml, which converts RTF-Documents to HTML; which in turn is used within the World Wide Web Project. rtftohtml converts a linear RTF-Document to an also linear HTML-Document, without any hypertext or structuring (well, since version 2.7 this isn't quite true anymore, but that table of contents doesn't turn your documents into hypertext).
This is where rtftoweb comes in.

rtftoweb converts a linear RTF-Document (that may contain cross references, index entries and footnotes) into a fully hypertexted set of HTML-Documents.

This document, that you're reading right now, is an example for what you can expect from rtftoweb, since it was created from an RTF-source by rtftohtml 2.7.4 with applied rtftoweb 1.4 patches, with the command

	rtftohtml -h1 -c -x rtftoweb.rtf

rtftoweb adds the following features
to rtftohtml:

• splitting of the document: rtftoweb uses the headlines to determine where to split (the splitting depth is adjustable by the user, see 3.1. for details)
• navigation panels on top and bottom of each page
• active cross references to headings
• automatic generation of an active table of contents
• automatic generation of an active index

("active" is meant in the sense of clickable)