Quote:
Originally Posted by radius
Originally, my preference was for completely plain ASCII text, with no linebreaks inside paragraphs, and double linebreaks between paragraphs; single linebreaks between lines of poems/songs/quotes. This can be handled by pretty much any software on any platform and will almost certainly still be easily readable fifty years from now.
So if the source was HTML, then I basically deleted anything between angle brackets to create a text-only version. If the source was Word, I did a copy and paste from Word into a text editor.
|
It's people like you who are the reason that I have to spend hundreds of hours proof-reading a book to put back all the formatting (italics, accented letters, etc) that you've removed from it
.
Seriously, things like italics are integral to a text, and losing them removes a great deal from a book.