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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/20 11:00 AM, William_J_G
Overington via Unicode wrote:<br>
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However, for long-term storage and archiving of teletext
pages within documents that contain notes about them,
all of those solutions have problems. They are all
essentially markup solutions.</span></span></span></p>
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<p>Yes, they are. As is what Doug Ewell mentioned, writing a
program to treat < and > as having a special meaning and
creating another layer on top of plain text (we call them things
like HTML or XML, etc). I assumed, since you were responding to
that, that you were drawing some sort of parallel, that it should
be possible to have a layer on top of plain text, i.e. a markup
layer, wherein certain printable characters could represent other
meanings. It sounds like your request didn't actually relate to
what Doug Ewell was saying, since you then reject markup
solutions. I drew the wrong conclusion; I guess you meant to post
your request/suggestion in a new thread and not as a reply.<br>
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<p>~mark<br>
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