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On text documents

On text documents

Posted May 12, 2012 15:56 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: On text documents by mrons
Parent article: Who owns your data?

RTF was an option to save in using Microsoft products back then, and shares the readability of TeX (in principle—WYSIWYG editors like Word had a tendency to not collapse redundant formatting statements, so that font name/color info was repeated for like every paragraph and bullet point).


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