
Italics: Add one asterisk or underscore around your text *like this* or _this_īold: Add two asterisks or underscores around your text **like this** or _this_īold and Italic: Add three asterisks or underscores around your text ***like this*** or _this_ Ready to add some formatting to your text? Here are the basics: Format your text with a few symbols, and it's still perfectly readable-both by humans and by programs which could turn the text into even more readable PDFs, websites, and printed books. "The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible," writes Gruber on Markdown's main page. Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz as a way to format text for the web using simple characters including asterisks, underscores, and brackets. With that, you'd have reinvented a basic version of Markdown. Perhaps use a hash symbol (yes, what the kids these days call a hashtag) for headers, an underscore for italics, and asterisk for strong, bold words. The simplest way would be to repurpose some special characters. How do you emphasize words, set apart quotes, and both make your document nicer looking and easier to read at the same time? There's no italics, no color options, no larger typeface for headers. Have a question? Visit our support forums or write us an e-mail.Imagine typing on a mechanical typewriter, with only letters and punctuation at your fingertips. Of course this is not a complete list, but it will give you an impression of the power and flexibility of our component.
#RICH TEXT VS PLAIN TEXT SOFTWARE#
Want to see real world applications that were built with our components? We have created a list of software built by satisfied customers using our component. RichViewActions (free addon) includes a set of components and actions allowing you to create a stunning user interface in the Delphi form designer, with almost no programming at all. You do not need to be an expert in programming to create a powerful word processor with our components. Additional resources for our components.Detailed information about the components.many advanced text and paragraph attributes.page properties (page format, page orientation, margins),.document properties (authors, title, description),.fields (counters, page numbers, page counts),.headers and footers (including special headers and footers for the first page and odd/even pages,.multilevel bullets and numbering (both in old and new formats).embedded images (formats: metafiles (both 16-bit and 32-bit), bitmaps (both DIB and DDB), Jpegs, Png.tables (including nested tables and tables with columns widths defined in percents),.Our rich text edit control can read RTF (as well as DocX) files with: And this is a native VCL/LCL component, it is not based on any DLL or ActiveX. Of course, we are unable to reproduce 100% of Microsoft Word, but we offer an editor component with one of the best RTF engines available for Delphi developers. If you are looking for an advanced rich text editing component, you have come to the right place.

This is because the richedit control does not understand the new RTF format of bullets, and simply pastes them as plain text. When you paste bulleted paragraphs from the new version of Microsoft Word into the standard richedit control, you can see that although the pasted bullets look like bullets they no longer work like bullets. Many other RTF readers (including the standard rich edit control) understand only the old format of bullets and numbering. Some changes during RTF evolution were more radical: for example, since MS Word 97, the representation of bullets and numbering in RTF has changed completely. There are third-party wrappers for the newer version of the richedit DLL available, but they are still limited: images only in basic formats, very primitive and buggy tables, no advanced formatting.įor obvious reasons, Microsoft's richedit will never be even nearly as powerful as Microsoft Word. The standard Delphi TRichEdit component (based on the richedit DLL) supports a relatively small subset of RTF keywords: no images, no hyperlinks, no tables, no advanced formatting. Other applications support subsets of RTF keywords. Each new version of Microsoft Word adds new keywords to RTF. RTF evolves together with Microsoft Word. RTF can store complex formatting information, It's a widely recognized format supported by many applications, including WordPad and Microsoft Word. RTF (Rich Text Format) is a file format that allows exchanging formatted text and graphics between different word processors and different operating systems.
