For example, three iPhone/iPad apps are now on the Mac, too: Notes (a yellow pad, now with formatting and graphics), Reminders (a to-do list); and Game Center (lets you play against people on their Macs, iPhones and iPads, although few compatible games exist yet).
Documents created with full-featured word-processing programs that use a variety of type fonts, formatting and graphic elements will be larger in size than basic ASCII text files because the file must accommodate all the formatting information in addition to the text.
Instead of generating an original and subsequent MD5 sum, one might generate a single digital signature of the document's text stream, stripped of all formatting, tagging, and graphics.
For example, the Peek displays no formatting whatsoever — no embedded graphics, no stationery, not even bold or italic.
HTML, in full hypertext markup language, a formatting system for displaying text, graphics, and audio retrieved over the Internet on a computer monitor.
Although PostScript can be read and written by a programmer, it is normally produced by text formatting programs, word processors, or graphic display tools.
That is, the program tucks your added, deleted or reformatted text and numbers into the original documents, without disturbing whatever fonts, graphics, footnotes, styles and other formatting elements were there.
This is the formatting language that controls the way text, graphics, and links are displayed in web browsers.
I'm not sure where this mindset comes from; where people think they can slap together a document with no editing, proofreading, graphic design of any kind, or formatting, and call it a book.
Manual data entry, a slow and error-prone process, is facilitated to a degree by special computer programs that include editing software, with which to insert formatting commands, verify spelling, and make text changes, and document-formatting software, with which to arrange and rearrange text and graphics flexibly on the output page.
