Editing E-text (section)

{{Short description|Any document that is read in digital form}}
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'''e-text''' (from "''[[electronics|electronic]] text''"; sometimes written as '''etext''') is a general term for any [[Electronic document|document]] that is read in [[digital data|digital form]], and especially a document that is mainly text. For example, a computer-based book of art with minimal text, or a set of [[photograph]]s or [[Book scanning|scans of pages]], would not usually be called an "e-text".  An e-text may be a [[Binary file|binary]] or a [[plain text]] file, viewed with any [[open source]] or [[proprietary software]]. An e-text may have [[markup language|markup]] or other [[Formatted text|formatting]] information, or not. An e-text may be an electronic edition of a work originally composed or published in other media, or may be created in electronic form originally. The term is usually synonymous with [[e-book]].