Basic markup was probably invented in the 19th C. Certainly used by typists before personal computing.
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Originally Posted by theducks
Those should use Notepad (a simple Text editor) and get the words paragraphs down in a file (s). then let a Pro format from there.
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They won't. Most want latest MS Word or if on Apple, Pages.
Or even Scrivener.
OTOH allegedly GRR Martin uses Wordstar (I've used it on CP/M and MS-DOS and later incompatible programs from same company). Also Wordperfect and MS Word both on DOS.
Word and Writer both recognise basic markup of imported or copy/pasted plain text.
I used to teach wordprocessing and I bet Hitch has seen scarier MSS from Word than I have.
Then there was the secretary that used only one file on her PC. She just kept adding letters to it and would select the part to print
