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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/20 6:40 AM, William_J_G
Overington via Unicode wrote:<br>
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> 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
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<p>If you say so.</p>
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> It sounds like your request didn't actually relate to
what Doug Ewell was saying, since you then reject markup
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Well, I suppose that there may well quite justifiably seem to
be a logical inconsistency in me not being enthusiastic about
some particular markup solutions and then suggesting what is
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<p>Some. I understand that you don't want a markup solution, but
Doug Ewell essentially was saying "There are always markup
solutions," to which you replied with what seemed like a desire
for something like that. I guess things don't always come across
well in text. Suffice to say:</p>
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<p> 1. There are markup solution possibilities, as Doug Ewell
pointed out..</p>
<p> 2. Such markup could conceivably include the "Symbol" glyphs at
U+2400, just as a possible suggestion for printable characters
which would have a markup meaning, as I pointed out.</p>
<p> 3. You'd rather not do a markup solution with currently extant
characters, as you point out.<br>
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<p>~mark<br>
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