Re: plain text (was RE: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 13:17:22 EST

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    Peter Constable scripsit:

    > Perhaps we need some new terminology here. It might be helpful to
    > describe an XML file as a "plain-text-markup file" (PTM, for acronym
    > lovers), but reserve the term "plain text file" for files that contain
    > text with no markup. Note that the terms being defined are "xxx file",
    > not simply "plain text". Thus, John can continue to say that XML is
    > plain text, but in some contexts that wouldn't be as useful as saying
    > "XML files are plain-text-markup files".

    Fair enough, though technically even plain-text files typically mark
    either line ends or paragraph breaks with markup (= control) characters.

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