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Originally Posted by jandrew
Thank you. I have been a software developer for a couple decades.
Yes html (and sgml, LaTeX, etc) is considered formatted text or rich text, but still plain text. In the context of a discussion of preserving content for the future, the distinction is important. Some people in this thread seem confused to the point of thinking that a text file stripped of all html is more future proof than the html file itself. This is a misconception that only amounts to a loss of information.
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Why thank you for alerting me to that fact. Because I wasn't blatantly making fun of you.
(Hint: I am well aware that anyone who casually discusses LaTeX and rdoc doesn't need that explanation unless they are being deliberately obtuse.)
Oh, yes. And while
some people around here were pointing out that .txt (not plain text, .txt) is a bad choice because you should do something normal and use HTML, you felt the need to point out that "html is plain text too", so who do you suppose was carrying out the real misconception, Professor Clarity?