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Old 09-01-2009, 12:28 PM   #28
ahi
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Thanks, both of you! And yes, it is interesting.

It just occurred to me that this sort of approach to formatting might also effectively simplify formatting code.

I have RTF files that seem full of unnecessary bold commands... bold being set 5-6 times in a row, for what is basically a single contiguous bolded portion. Converted into this parallel stream format, when time comes to reencode into HTML or LaTeX, that sort of a mess would only generate a single <b>...</b> or \textbf{...}.

Which is fortuitous, because I've also been thinking of how formatting could be refactored so as to remove redundancy.

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