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The text/enriched MIME Content-type

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Network Working Group                                      N. Borenstein
Request for Comments: 1563                                      Bellcore
Obsoletes: 1523                                             January 1994
Category: Informational


                  The text/enriched MIME Content-type

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   MIME [RFC-1341, RFC-1521] defines a format and general framework for
   the representation of a wide variety of data types in Internet mail.
   This document defines one particular type of MIME data, the
   text/enriched type, a refinement of the "text/richtext" type defined
   in RFC 1341.  The text/enriched MIME type is intended to facilitate
   the wider interoperation of simple enriched text across a wide
   variety of hardware and software platforms.

Table of Contents

   The Text/enriched MIME type..............................  2
   Formatting Commands......................................  4
         Font-Alteration Commands...........................  4
         Fill/Justification Commands........................  5
         Indentation Commands...............................  6
         Miscellaneous Commands.............................  6
         Balancing and Nesting of Formatting Commands.......  7
         Unrecognized formatting commands...................  8
   White Space in Text/enriched Data........................  8
   Initial State of a text/enriched interpreter.............  8
   Non-ASCII character sets.................................  8
   Minimal text/enriched conformance........................  9
   Notes for Implementors...................................  9
   Extensions to text/enriched.............................. 10
   An Example............................................... 11
   Security Considerations.................................. 12
   Author's Address......................................... 12
   Acknowledgements......................................... 12
   References............................................... 12
   Appendix A -- A Simple enriched-to-plain Translator in C. 13
   Appendix B -- Differences from RFC 1341 text/richtext.... 15




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