Enriched text

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Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 199: malformed pattern (missing ']'). Enriched text is a formatted text format for e-mail, defined by the IETF in RFC 1896 and associated with the text/enriched MIME type. It is "intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide variety of hardware and software platforms". As of 2012, enriched text remained almost unknown in e-mail traffic, while HTML e-mail is widely used[citation needed]. Enriched text, or at least the subset of HTML that can be transformed into enriched text, is seen as superior to full HTML for use with e-mail (mainly because of security considerations).[1]

A predecessor of this MIME type was called text/richtext in RFC 1341 and RFC 1521. Neither should be confused with Rich Text Format (MIME type text/rtf or application/rtf) which are unrelated specifications, devised by Microsoft.

A single newline in enriched text is treated as a space. Formatting commands are in the same style as SGML and HTML. They must be balanced and nested.

Examples

<bold><italic>Hello, world!</italic></bold>

<italic><bold>Hello, world!</bold></italic>

The following, on the other hand, is not:

<bold><italic>Hello, world!</bold></italic>

The following enriched text:

<color><param>red</param>Blood</color> is <bold>thicker</bold> than
<color><param>blue</param>water</color>.

<paraindent><param>left</param><italic>-- Well-known proverb
</italic></paraindent>

yields

Blood is thicker than water.

-- Well-known proverb

Enriched text is a supported format of Emacs,[2] Mutt[3] and Mulberry.

References

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External links


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  1. Why HTML is Inappropriate for E-Mail
  2. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Enriched-Text.html
  3. http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html