Re: Encoding italic

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:04 PM James Kass via Unicode
<unicode@unicode.org> wrote:

A new beta of BabelPad has been released which enables input, storing,
and display of italics, bold, strikethrough, and underline in plain-text

Okay? Ed can do that too, along with nano and notepad. It's called
HTML (TeX, Troff). If by plain-text, you mean self-interpeting,
without external standards, then it's simply impossible.

It's either "markdown" or control/tag sequences. Both are out of band information.

And without external standard, not interoperable.

A./