Re: plain text (was RE: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

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Peter Constable scripsit:

> Perhaps we need some new terminology here. It might be helpful to
> describe an XML file as a "plain-text-markup file" (PTM, for acronym
> lovers), but reserve the term "plain text file" for files that contain
> text with no markup. Note that the terms being defined are "xxx file",
> not simply "plain text". Thus, John can continue to say that XML is
> plain text, but in some contexts that wouldn't be as useful as saying
> "XML files are plain-text-markup files".

Fair enough, though technically even plain-text files typically mark
either line ends or paragraph breaks with markup (= control) characters.

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