[email protected] wrote: > 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. >> > > > It wasn't me that said that. It was Dotan. My comment was "It might also depend on whether you're sending HTML or plain text".
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