There was an issue where gr-formatted-text would not display when the
config was not loaded yet. This change adds a function to display text
as is, in the event that the config is not yet loaded. It also refactors
the existing functions to make it more clear where config is needed.
Bug: Issue 5690
Change-Id: I74896bd59793b26b2b8fe289c13e5762c60fe8df