From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 11:14:58 CDT
At 10:54 -0500 2005-06-15, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>I view/edit multi-colored plain text all the time - computer code,
>xml, etc. Using emacs. Also a web browser.
When it is multi-coloured, it isn't plain text.
Plain text is the interchanged information content. The characters we
encode. The size and shape and slant and colour that you may put onto
that text is essentially decorative, whatever use that decoration may
be put to.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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