RTF for emacs

[James Freer]

I read some time ago that there was development taking place for providing 
emacs with word processing i.e. formatting iirc RTF.

Is this taking place or has the interest declined. Reading posts a while back 
on 'how emacs can be improved' (or similar header). I was wondering as one 
thing I'd love to see in linux would be a cli RTF editor or graphical. I found 
so many bugs in Abiword and LO-writer that I don't want to use them.

thanks
james