It's pretty unclear what you're asking. Something about a math symbol, but then I am lost.
A textbox is a simple control to hold text without too much fancy formatting. A Rich Textbox is designed to hold rich formatted text, like colors and images. If I am not mistaken, it uses RTF as the underlying document, but there may be other formats used as well.
If you want to develop an editor, take a look here:
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/Download/
It's a C# editor, developed in C#. By looking at the source you can really learn a lot from the inner workings of an editor.
Cheers,
Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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