Enriched text was an unofficial formatted text format for email, defined by the IETF in and associated with the text/enriched MIME type which is defined in .

It never saw widespread use and was never intended to:

Format

A predecessor of this MIME type was called text/richtext in and . Neither should be confused with Rich Text Format (RTF, 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.

Enriched text is a supported format of Emacs, Evolution, Mutt, Mulberry and Netscape Communicator.

Examples

Output:

Hello, world! Output:

Blood is thicker than water.

1. -- Well-known proverb

References

External links

• The text/enriched MIME Content-type