{{Short description|Formatted text format for e-mail}} {{Redirect|Richtext|the document file format developed by Microsoft|Rich Text Format}} {{Infobox file format | name = Enriched text | icon = | extension = | mime = text/enriched | type code = | uniform type = | magic = | owner = | genre = Formatted text format | container for = | contained by = | extended from = | extended to = | standard = {{IETF RFC|1896}} Enriched Text }} '''Enriched text''' is a formatted text format for email, defined by the IETF in {{IETF RFC|1896}} and associated with the <code>text/enriched</code> MIME type which is defined in {{IETF RFC|1563}}.
==Format== 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 email traffic, while HTML email is widely used.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}
A predecessor of this MIME type was called <code>text/richtext</code> in {{IETF RFC|1341}} and {{IETF RFC|1521}}. Neither should be confused with Rich Text Format (RTF, MIME type <code>text/rtf</code> or <code>application/rtf</code>) 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.
Enriched text is a supported format of Emacs,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Enriched-Text.html|title=gnu.org|website=www.gnu.org}}</ref> Evolution, Mutt,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html |title=The Mutt E-Mail Client: Mutt's MIME Support |access-date=2013-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308123315/http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-5.html |archive-date=2013-03-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Mulberry and Netscape Communicator.
==Examples== {| !Code !Output |- |<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> <bold>Hello, <italic>world!</italic></bold> </syntaxhighlight> |'''Hello, ''world!''''' |- |<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> <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> </syntaxhighlight> |<span style="color:red;">Blood</span> is '''thicker''' than <span style="color:blue;">water</span>. :''-- Well-known proverb'' |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt The text/enriched MIME Content-type]
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