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Old 08-16-2014, 07:16 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
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.
In which case you no longer have a plain text file: you now have a file in "markup language". And that's the whole point of what's being said here, that plain text is not a good choice - you need a "richer" format. Markup language provides such a richer format.
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