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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You are missing the point, which is that that presupposes that any particular piece of text has any formatting to preserve. For instance, this paragraph is effectively plain text already, and loses nothing from conversion to txt. I COULD enhance its meaning with smilies, but in its current state it works everywhere.
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But if I use italics to mean something, that meaning gets lost when converted to plain text. I have read many books where italics means something and removing the italics loses the meaning.