Tuesday, April 10, 2012

[tvanmacm] Plain to fancy text

The simplest is plain ASCII text.  From there, there are many, many ways the mere task of encoding text -- perhaps structured into a document -- becomes more fancy and complicated.  Markdown, Unicode, HTML, Javascript, Microsoft Word,...

Nowadays these are a collection of ad hoc formats.  Make it systematic and unified.  Use only as much complexity as you need.  (Are you sure plain ASCII text won't do?)

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