From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 23:57:29 CST
Peter Constable wrote,
>But you're blurring the lines between plain text
>and markup: what you're suggesting *is* markup,
>but you're just calling it plain text.
HTML source files are plain-text files. The mark-up
contained within consists of plain-text strings. Using
plain-text strings as mark-up blurs no lines, it's done
every day.
On the other hand, encoding icons as text crosses the
line between plain-text and rich-text.
Best regards,
James Kass
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