[MIL] Text Information and Media

Text

A simple and flexible format of presenting information or conveying ideas whether handwritten, printed, or displayed on-screen

Text

One of the elements of multimedia products that can then be combined with several other elements to present information and create an impression or impact

Text

Any “human-readable sequence of characters” that can form intelligible words

Hypertext

Serve to link different electronic documents and enable users to jump from one to other in a nonlinear way

Hypertext

Makes use of linking a text to another text “in such a way that the user can navigate non-sequentially from one document to the other for cross-references.”

Hypertext

Also known as hyperlinks or underlined text strings

Plaintext or Unformatted Text

Fixed sized characters having essentially the same type of appearance

Plaintext or Unformatted Text

Corresponds to a set of characters in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange Table. The table consists of characters represented by a uniqe 7-bit binary code.

Formatted Text

Appearance can be changed using font parameters (bold, underline, italic, font size, font color, etc.)

Formatted Text

Most often used in text publishing

Typeface

Also called font, font type, or type

Typeface

Refers to the representation or style of a text in the digital format

Typeface

Usually comprised of alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols, and other special characters

Word processor

Any computer software used to “produce, edit, and format mainly text-based documents such as writing letters, memos, reports, creating letterheads, producing labels, etc.”

Txt

Unformatted text document by an editor as notepad on Windows platform

Doc

A native format for storing documents created by MS Word Package

Doc

Contains a rich set of formatting capabilities

RTF

Cross platform document exchange; default format for Mac OS X’s default editor TextEdit

RTF

WordPad editor earlier created these files by default although now it has switched to DOC format

PDF

Portable Document Format

PDF

Developed by Adobe systems for cross platform exchange of documents, supports image, and graphics

PDF

An open standard and anyone may write programs that can read and write PDF’s without any associated royalty charges

PS

A page description language used mainly for desktop publishing

PS

Page description language is a high-level language that can describe the contents of a page such that it can be accurately displayed on output devices usually a printer