>However, the remainder of my contribution was really about Word's >treatment of Unicode text; and that program does not carry the >table structure over to the plain text
Of course not. There is no such thing as a representation of a table structure in plain text. Plain text is simply linear, whereas tables are more complex. A table absolutely requires a higher-level protocol: either some form of markup, or else a human brain interpreting a particular visual rendering of plain text such as what Marco as though it were a table. (Note: when I read his message, it was not appearing in a monospaced font, and so it took an extra step for my brain to interpret what I saw as a table. The point being that the table was something I inferred and was not itself encoded in the plain text.) - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
