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[whatwg] HTML as a text format: Should be optional?</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=from:%22%C3%98istein+E+.+Andersen%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Øistein E . Andersen</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=date:20090417" rel="nofollow">Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:49:51 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody">  <tt>HTML can be used as an advanced text format, and people may want to </tt><tt>convert existing plain text to HTML. For example's sake, consider the </tt><tt>following: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> A Short Document ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a short plain-text document which someone might want to convert into HTML.</pre><pre> As faithful readers of this list will recall, /Règles typographiques/ requires note names to be typeset in italics (/ut/, /ré/, /mi/, etc.), which is not possible in plain text. </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> This corresponds to the following HTML: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> <h1>A Short Document</h1> <p>This is a short plain-text document which someone might want to convert into HTML. <p>As faithful readers of this list will recall, <i>Règles typographiques</i> requires note names to be typeset in italics (<i>ut</i>, <i>ré</i>, <i>mi</i>, etc.), which is not possible in plain text. </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>Unfortunately, this is not valid; the following two lines must be </tt><tt>added to the top: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> <!DOCTYPE html> <title>A Short Document</title> </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>The DOCTYPE is unfortunate, but seems impossible to get rid of at this </tt><tt>point. </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>A <title> is usually a good idea, but is it really necessary to </tt><tt>require this for conformance? After all, a <title> is not something </tt><tt>which an author is likely to forget, and leaving it out has no </tt><tt>unexpected consequences. </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> -- Øistein E. 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