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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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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.