Jony Rosenne <rosennej at qsm dot co dot il> wrote: > Normal printed text is hardly ever plain text. It contains headings, > highlighted phrases, paragraphs etc.
Headings and highlighted text, when stripped of their formatting, are still legible, and paragraph boundaries can usually be indicated in plain text. One useful litmus (or lackmus) test for this Hebrew example would be whether the text in question is still legible, with its original meaning, when reduced to plain text representable in today's Unicode. If the special Ketiv/Qere handling is needed only because It Is The Word, and This Is How It Was Written, then this is probably a paleographic distinction and out of scope for plain text. If it genuinely changes the spelling, that is another matter. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
