Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2001 10:39, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
> > Verbatim is a hard word, and I'm not *really* clear what
> > it means. Copy confuses me, because I think of that word
> > with computers as a very active verb -- like, it does
> > something external.  Copyfile, perhaps, or insertfile.
> 
> I think people would learn it's meaning fairly fast as it's 
> also used in the #verbatim directive  There's good 
> symmetry in that.  Can you think of any easier words 
> that mean the same thing?  
> 
> as is 
> escaped
> plain
> noparse

unparsed
plain text
text/plain (from MIME)
raw
raw text

I think raw text makes the most sense to me.  Plain text also seems
like a good description.

  Ian

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