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Formatted text. In computing, formatted text, styled text, or rich text, as opposed to plain text, is digital text which has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles ( boldface, italic ), sizes, and special features in HTML (such as hyperlinks ).
Markdown[ 9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy to read markup language. [ 9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files .
The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary [ 6][ 7][ 8] document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation from 1987 until 2008 for cross-platform document interchange with Microsoft products. Prior to 2008, Microsoft published updated specifications for RTF with major revisions of Microsoft ...
Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, and any other well-recognized citation system. Parameters in the citation templates should be accurate.
Text editor. Editors like Leafpad, shown here, are often included with operating systems as a default helper application for opening text files. A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as " notepad " software (e.g. Windows Notepad ). [ 1][ 2][ 3] Text editors are provided with ...
wikEd. wikEd is a full-featured, in-browser text editor that adds enhanced text processing functions to Wikipedia and other MediaWiki edit pages (currently Mozilla, Firefox, SeaMonkey, Safari, and Chrome only). Features include: Pasting formatted text, e.g. from MS-Word (including tables)
Word processor. A word processor ( WP) [ 1][ 2] is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general purpose computers.
Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical type (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols). [ 1] Stored types are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display.