jim said:
> I don’t see how one “elicits beauty” from something that isn’t there.
> Plain text doesn’t have enough power to encode even
> simple mainstream texts, which frequently include
> the use of italic, for example.
italics are indicated by surrounding _underscores_...
> Yes, one can fake it, but then its not plain text anymore.
you have an archaic and incorrect notion of "plain text"...
> If we had an unambiguous encoding which captures authors intent,
> then it would be easy to go the other direction and “throw away”
> author’s intent when it doesn’t fit into plain jane text mode.
why would you want to "throw away" the author's intent?
-bowerbird