The most important advantage of a formatted document (for instance, an RTF document) in comparing to a plain text document is that a formatted document can contain not only plain text (textual information itself) but various additional information that controls the appearance, the visual aspect of different portions of this document.
Each particular fragment of a formatted document can have its own visual appearance. You could apply different visual effects to the text of a formatted document such as the different font styles (bold, italic, underlined), colors, typefaces, font sizes, text alignments etc.
In other words, each fragment of a formatted document can have its own format. This allows to make formatted documents more readable and easier in perception.
One of the most important groups of operations which Atlantis allows you to perform on your documents, is Formatting.
Atlantis distinguishes two types of formattings: Font Formatting and Paragraph Formatting.
Font Formatting changes the appearance of a separate character or a group of characters. For example, the following characteristics of a character are affected by Font Formatting: typeface, font size, font style (bold, italic), font color etc.
Paragraph Formatting changes the appearance of a paragraph as a whole and does not affect the appearance of each particular character.