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Originally Posted by Tarana
In fact, I can't think of any novel that needs more than that.
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You preserve what you like for your self.
I'm aware of novels that use different fonts, made up characters, images, formulae, stylistic indentation, Elfish glyphs and runes, etc. I think it's more up to the authors what a novel "needs" and once they've decided, most of would prefer to preserve it that way.
As for arguing about it: Meh. All Harry and I are trying to tell you is that if you are coding ANY formatting, like italics, in a text file, then you are describing a markup language, like HTML. It's already text-based, very rich, and many of the formats we are discussing are based on it.