RE: Plain Old Text

["Alyssa Fox" <afox -at- zeh -dot- com>]

I open ASCII-text files in FrameMaker all the time for formatting.

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Subject: Plain Old Text


Hey Guys,

I've been curious about something for a pretty long time now.  Is it
possible to just write your documents in plain old b-flat ascii
text, and then transfer it to, say, Word, or Framemaker for
formatting?

I guess after a certain level of complexity this would be
impractical... but I genuinely *like* plain old text. Nice
fixed-width fonts, etc. etc.  I know you still need the bloated set
of tools, but like I said, I'm curious.

BTW, I've been getting dups of list-mail, too,
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