Multimedia text

Words and sentences are used in multimedia presentations to describe the topic or explain concepts.
Hypertext is text that links to other documents or to other parts of the same document and has become popular as many manuals, encyclopedia and the like become electronic.

Hypertext

Hypertext:
Connects text and pictures as in this html based Knowledge base

Examples:

Text that jump to other pages (or parts of the same page) in a web document (html).
Hot links in a Microsoft Windows Help file

Formats

ASCII

Commonly used to transfer raw text into multimedia presentations. In some products additional "control codes" are added to add emphasis.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
ASCII text file that is enhanced to produce variations of font, style etc. The main format for internet based files.

Rich Text Format (RTF)
ASCII text file enabling formatted text to be transferred around different computing platforms. Initially designed to transfer files between the Apple Mac platform and the IBM PC platform.
Also used as the source file for Windows Help files.

Issues

Fonts

If you use a variety of fonts when developing a multimedia application, you should consider if your Multimedia environment supports embedded fonts. This means target machines do not need fonts installed. Otherwise stick to standard fonts, and if you need special font effects you can use graphic (bitmapped) images of the text.