Hi James,


>Plain text has no formatting<



To?some of us "plain text" means per the ancient ASCII standard.? That was 
American Standards Code?for Information Interchange.? I don't have a copy at 
hand but believe it included some, but very little, formatting, ie . end of 
line and?page break but no?bold, italics,?underline, font changes, etc.?? had 
only 128 symbols, ie. 7 bits.? Then IBM expanded it to an 8 bit code but the 
additions were mostly foreign letters plus "typewriter graphics".? ?


Bob




>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Knott <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 6:47 am
>Subject: Re: [users] Possible to put Writer document in body of email?



Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Well, yes. Dotan's original message spoke of losing formatting, which would
>> only be relevant if you were sending HTML. Plain text, by definition, has no
>> formatting.
>>
>>     
>
> I _strongly_ disagree that plain text cannot have *any* formatting. In
> fact, there are some *very* popular plain text markup languages
> available, such as Markdown.

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