[gutvol-d] Re: In search of a more-vanilla vanilla TXT

TEI comes to mind as format perfectly suitable to preserve a lot that HTML cannot.

Um, this standard is 1350 pages long. Tell me again why I should be reading it? I want to code books -- not the Sistine Chapel.

I don't see any problem here: Produce utf-8 files.

But that would still leave all the other problems with txt files. And the reason we are required to produce txt is to support those with teletypewriters. Rhetorically speaking why not just produce as bad txt files as one can and still get away with it and hope that someday soon both Gut readers and Gut content produces will see the light and give txt up as long gone dead?