From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2007 - 07:39:10 CST
I think the point of arguing whether Notepad is doing something or one
of its underlying system services is moot. Similarly, one could be a
pain and argue that TextEdit is doing doing anything but it is CoreText
or ATSUI or whatever the relevant subsystem is that is doin the work. To
engineers and power users, this would be a welcome supplemental
information, but this does not eliminate the point that *functionally*
it is Notepad or TextEdit, respectively, that exhibit a certain behavior.
So while I respect Andrew's comment for providing supplemental
information I think John Hudson's characterization was still correct and
accurate.
On a more general side, I think one needs to realize that the property
of "plain text" as opposed to "rich text" (aka "styled text") is not
that plain text has no typographic formatting. Plain text always has
typographic formatting, like John Hudson pointed it out. The thing is
that plain text has UNIFORM typographic formatting across the entire
text, and it usually cannot be customized by the user (at least not to a
great degree). But this says nothing of whether ligatures form or do not
form by default.
A.
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