Apart from that control sequences for (some) styling is standardised (since decades by now), and the "tag characters" approach is not:
For the control sequences for styling, there is no pretence of nesting, just setting/unsetting an aspect of styling. For <b></b> etc. (in tag characters) there is at least the pretence/appearance of nesting, even if the interpreter doesn't actually care about nesting (and just interprets them as set/unset). (In addition, <b> etc. in "real" HTML are 1) disrecommended, and 2) the actual styling comes from a style sheet (and the **default** one makes <b> stuff bold).) /Kent K Den 2019-01-27 21:03, skrev "James Kass via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org>: > > A new beta of BabelPad has been released which enables input, storing, > and display of italics, bold, strikethrough, and underline in plain-text > using the tag characters method described earlier in this thread. This > enhancement is described in the release notes linked on this download page: > > http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/index.html >
