This field, along with the Extended Entry field, make up the body of your entry. The contents of this field are displayed with the MTEntryBody tag.

Movable Type allows you to split up your entry for more flexibility in the display of that entry; for example, if you write very long entries, you may want to display MTEntryBody on your index, Monthly and Category templates, but use both MTEntryBody and MTEntryMore (for the extended entry) on your Individual archive.

The entry body is transformed upon publishing according to the text formatting you've selected for that entry. If you wish to disable that conversion in a particular template, you can use the convert_breaks global attribute in that template. Example:

<$MTEntryBody convert_breaks="0"$>