At 8:19 AM 11/18/94, Ed Levinson wrote:
Let's ignore these details and look at the larger issue, "How do we
define operationally, 'to some extent readable'?" I suggest a rough
exactly! how?
consensus exists that it's a judgment call, but finding a rough
consensus on a *particular* markup language will be difficult. So
For an existing language, there is some established practise for plain-text
formatting. I suggest we use THAT experience for guiding likely user
outcome/reaction.
The standard for text/NOTplain should be, "Do we ask vendors to
implement it *inside* their user agents?". Under that standard any
no. We can't give useful direction in this matter AND the whole idea is
how the stuff will look WITHOUT an interpreter.
d/
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