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Originally Posted by Tarana
I agree that the loss of italics is a problem in some novels. You could fix that by using an asterisk on each side of the italicized words. That's what they did before RTF was available.
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Surely you realize that italics was just an example. The point is that formatting and typography is often important to the work, and should be preserved.
And, sure, you could mark italics with an asterisk, and mark bold with hashmarks, or use some other symbols that everyone agrees on, and is easier to interpret, like <i> and <b>...oh wait...that's called mark-up....as in the "M" in HTML....