Here’s a little something that might get you formatted-text nerds excited: Rich Notes, yet another new text-editing app, lets you write on the iPad in rich text. That is, you can italicize and ...

Notepad now supports rich text formatting, including Markdown, making it more modern. Users can toggle between Markdown view and raw syntax view, with an option to disable all formatting. The new ...

WYSIHTML5, cleverly named after the well known acronym for what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG), is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 and the progressive-enhancement approach.

Tired of your bland plain text Gmail signature? Want to spice it up with your company logo and some bold formatting? Google has done you right — now Gmail signatures support rich text format. Here’s ...

In the early days of Windows, Microsoft created a format called Rich Text Format so Word files can be opened on any platform. It was and is still supported by a lot of editors, which allow them to ...

Question and answer social network Quora has launched a blog service that it hopes will allow more users to share in-depth knowledge about topics that they’re passionate about. The company believes ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

Here’s a little something that might get you formatted-text nerds excited: Rich Notes, yet another new text-editing app, lets you write on the iPad in rich text. That is, you can italicize and ...