David Starner wrote on 2001-03-02 19:20 UTC:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:55:50PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > I was recently in contact with the initiator of project Gutenberg, and
> > they are interested in updating their plaintext public domain literature
> > format guidelines to UTF-8 and ISO 6429 SGR as soon as a few more
> > editors to support entry comfortably are available.
>
> Ack! Why on earth would Project Gutenberg use ISO 6429? If you want
> richtext, use HTML. It's easy to write, can be viewed on far more
> platforms, and can be read as plain text without problems.
Their philosophy is very much formatted mono-spaced plaintext oriented
and they have discussed SGML frequently and decided that no. Formatted
plain text with SGRs can be turned trivially via
perl -p -e 's/\x1b\[[0-\?]*m//g;'
back into the formatted plain text that they use now.
Markus
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