1 Content-Type: text/enriched
4 <center><x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold><fixed>enriched.el:</fixed></bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
6 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>WYSIWYG rich text editing for GNU Emacs</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
9 </center><bold><x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param>INTRODUCTION</x-color></x-bg-color></bold>
13 <indent>Emacs now has the ability to edit <italic>enriched text</italic>, which is text
14 containing faces, colors, indentation, and other properties. This
15 document is a quick introduction to some of the new features, and
16 is also an example file in the <italic>text/enriched </italic>format.</indent>
19 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>INSTALLATION and STARTUP</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
22 <indent>Most of the time, you need not do anything to get these features
23 to work. If you visit a file that has been written out in
24 <italic>text/enriched</italic> format, it will automatically be decoded, Emacs will
25 enter `enriched-mode' while visiting it, and whenever you save it
26 it will be saved in the same format it was read in.
28 If you wish to create a new file, however, you will need to turn
29 on enriched-mode yourself:
32 <fixed><indent>M-x enriched-mode RET</indent></fixed>
35 Or, if you get a <italic>text/enriched </italic>file that Emacs does not
36 automatically recognize and decode, you can tell Emacs to decode
37 it (which also turns on enriched-mode automatically):
40 <fixed><indent>M-x format-decode-buffer RET text/enriched RET</indent></fixed></indent>
44 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>WHAT IS ENCODED</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
47 <indent>Here is the current list of text-properties that are saved; they
48 are discussed in more detail below. Most of these can be added or
49 changed with the "Text Properties" menu, available under the
50 "Edit" item in the menu-bar, or on C-mouse-2 (Control + the middle
53 <bold>Faces:</bold> <indent>default, <bold>bold</bold>, <italic>italic</italic>, <underline>underline</underline>, etc.</indent>
55 <bold>Colors:</bold> <x-color><param>red</param><x-bg-color><param>DarkSlateGray</param><indent>any</indent></x-bg-color></x-color><x-bg-color><param>DarkSlateGray</param><indent><x-color><param>orange</param>thing</x-color> <x-color><param>yellow</param>your</x-color><x-color><param>green</param> screen</x-color><x-color><param>blue</param> </x-color><x-color><param>light blue</param>can</x-color><x-color><param>violet</param> display...</x-color></indent></x-bg-color>
57 <bold>Newlines:</bold> <indent>Which ones are real ("hard") newlines, and which can be
58 changed to fit lines into the margins.</indent>
60 <bold>Margins:</bold> <indent>can be indented on the left or right.</indent>
62 <bold>Justification</bold> <indent>(whether lines should be flush with the left margin,
63 the right margin, fully justified, centered, or left alone).</indent>
65 <bold>Excerpts:</bold><indent> <excerpt>"For quoted material."</excerpt></indent>
67 <bold>Read-only</bold> regions.
71 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>FACES and COLORS</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
74 <indent>You can add faces either with the menu or with <fixed>M-g.</fixed> The face is
75 applied to the current region. If you are using
76 `transient-mark-mode' and the region is not active, then the face
77 applies to whatever you type next. Any face can have colors. If
78 this is its lone attribute, the face is put on the color submenus
79 of the "Text Properties" menu.</indent>
82 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>NEWLINES and PARAGRAPHS</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
85 <italic><indent>Text/enriched</indent></italic><indent> format distinguishes between <underline>hard</underline> and <underline>soft</underline> newlines.
86 Hard newlines are used to separate paragraphs, or items in a list,
87 or anywhere that must be a line break no matter what the margins
88 are. Soft newlines are the ones inserted in order to fit text
89 between the margins. The fill and auto-fill functions insert soft
90 newlines as necessary, but hard newlines are only inserted by
91 direct request, such as using the return key or the <fixed>C-o
92 (open-line)</fixed> function.</indent>
95 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>INDENTATION</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
98 <indent>The fill functions also understand margins, which can be set for
99 any region of a document. In addition to the menu items, which
100 increase or decrease the margins, there are two commands for
101 setting the margins absolutely: <fixed>C-c C-l (set-left-margin)</fixed> and <fixed>C-c
102 C-r (set-right-margin)</fixed>.
105 You <indent>can change indentation at any point in a paragraph, which
106 makes it possible to do interesting things like
107 hanging-indents: this paragraph was indented by selecting the
108 region from the second word to the end of the paragraph, and
109 indenting only that part.</indent></indent>
112 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>JUSTIFICATION</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
116 <indent><nofill>Several styles of justification are possible, the simplest being <italic>unfilled.
117 </italic>This means that your lines will be left as you write them.
118 This paragraph is unfilled.</nofill>
121 <flushleft>The most common (for English) style is <italic>FlushLeft. </italic>This means
122 lines are aligned at the left margin but left uneven at the right.</flushleft>
125 <flushright> <italic>FlushRight</italic> makes each line flush with the right margin instead.
126 This paragraph is FlushRight.</flushright>
130 <flushboth><italic>FlushBoth </italic>regions, which are sometimes called "fully justified"
131 are aligned evenly on both edges, so that the text on the page has
132 a smooth appearance as in a book or newspaper article.
133 Unfortunately this does not look as nice with a fixed-width font
134 as it does in a proportionally-spaced printed document; the extra
135 spaces that are needed on the screen can make it hard to read. </flushboth>
141 Finally, there is <italic>center </italic>justification. The normal
142 center-paragraph key, M-S, can be used to turn on center
143 justification in enriched-mode.
145 M-j or the "Text Properties" menu also can be used to change
150 </center><flushboth>Note that justification can only change at hard newlines, because
151 that is the unit over which filling gets done. </flushboth></indent>
154 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>EXCERPTS</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
157 <excerpt><indent>This is an example of an excerpt. You can use them for quoted
158 parts of other people's email messages and the like. It is just a
159 face, which is the same as the `italic' face by default.</indent></excerpt>
162 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>THE FILE FORMAT</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
165 <indent>Enriched-mode documents are saved in an extended version of a
166 format called <italic>text/enriched</italic>, which is defined as part of the MIME
167 standard. This means that your documents are transportable (even
168 through email) to many other systems. In the future other file
169 formats may be supported as well.
172 Since Emacs adds some non-standard features to the format (colors
173 and read-only regions), not all systems will be able to recreate
174 all of the features of your document, but they will get as close
178 The MIME standard is defined in </indent>Internet<indent> RFC 1521; text/enriched
179 is defined in RFC 1563. Details on obtaining these documents via
180 FTP or email may be obtained by sending an email message to
181 <fixed>rfc-info@isi.edu</fixed> with the message body:
184 <fixed><indent>help: ways_to_get_rfcs</indent></fixed>
187 <indent>See also the newsgroup <fixed>comp.mail.mime</fixed>.</indent></indent>
190 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>CUSTOMIZATION</bold></x-color></x-bg-color><bold>
193 </bold><indent>-<indent> The <fixed>fixed </fixed>and <excerpt>excerpt </excerpt>faces should be set to your liking.</indent>
195 -<indent> User-preference variables: <fixed>default-justification,
198 </fixed></indent>-<indent> You can add annotations for your own text properties by making
199 additions to <fixed>enriched-annotation-alist</fixed>. Note that the
200 standard requires you to name your annotation starting<italic> "x-"
201 </italic>(as in <italic>"x-read-only"</italic>). Please send me any such additions that
202 you think might be of general interest so that I can include
203 them in the distribution.</indent>
207 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>TO-DO LIST</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
210 <italic><indent>[Feel free to work on these and send me the results!]</indent></italic><indent>
212 + Conform to updated text/enriched spec in RFC 1896.
214 + Be smarter about fixing malformed files.
216 + Make the indentation work more seamlessly and robustly:
218 + Create<indent> an aggressive auto-fill function that will keep the
219 paragraph properly filled all the time, without slowing down
220 editing too much. Refill mode is a start at this, but needs
222 </indent></indent> <indent>improvment.
224 + Refill after yank. [Refill mode does that.]
226 +<indent> Make deleting a newline also delete the indentation following
229 + Never let point enter indentation??
231 + Notice and re-fill when window changes widths (optionally).
233 + Deal with the `category' text-property in a smart way.
235 + Interface w/ Gnus, VM, RMAIL. Maybe Info too? </indent>(Gnus 5.9 copes
237 with text/enriched incoming mail.)<indent>
239 + Support more formats: RTF, HTML...
241 + Use Emacs 21 display features.
245 <x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param><bold>Final Notes:</bold></x-color></x-bg-color>
248 <indent>This code and documentation is under development. Comments and
249 bug reports are welcome.</indent>
252 <bold><x-color><param>white</param><x-bg-color><param>blue</param>Boris Goldowsky</x-bg-color></x-color><x-color><param>light blue</param> </x-color></bold><x-color><param>light blue</param><fixed><<boris@gnu.ai.mit.edu></fixed></x-color><x-color><param>blue</param>
254 </x-color><x-bg-color><param>blue</param><x-color><param>white</param>April 1995; updated August 1997</x-color></x-bg-color>