Re: simpletext: an alternative to Richtext

[Dana S Emery <de19@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   For this to fly as-is will take a lot of cooperation and
>   education from users.

Maybe not, as I understand it, Bill is proposing that we adopt certain markup
conventions which are in common use.

Presumably, a compliant MIME-UA will be invisibly handling all the gory details
of mapping the "presentation" display for the composing user, thus no training
is needed there, and the receiver either has a UA which presents a pretty
version of it, or she sees it raw, and reads it employing that particular set of
conventions, drawing on the same background as we will have.

I think this proposal has much merit, and deserves deeper consideration.

BTW, [...]  is more commonly used for editorial commentary than footnotes, in my
experience.  [ ... ] might be sufficient distinguishment for an automaton, but I
am not sure I would trust a human to see the difference  in the raw.

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dana s emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>