As was pointed out to me, essentially what you are saying is you reject
my premise that one size does not fit all. You would prefer
*everything* be in plain text, "so you wouldn't have to use other
formats for it." You're essentially converting plain text into THE
format for everything.
But it isn't suited for that. If you really believe one size should fit
all in this way, I think the problem is that pretty much all of the rest
of the computer science community doesn't agree with you. Sorry.
~mark
On 05/28/2015 07:50 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
Responding to Mark E. Shoulson:
The big advantage of this new format is that the result is an unambiguous
Unicode plain text file and could be placed within a file of plain text without
having to make the whole document a markup file to some format. Plain text is
the key advantage.
The following may be useful as a guide to the original problem that I am trying
to solve.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html#Longer_Term
I tried to apply the brilliant new "base character followed by tag characters"
format to the problem.
In the future, maybe Serif DrawPlus will have the ability to export a picture
to this new format.
William Overington
28 May 2015
