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Originally Posted by macropod
Finally, you say:
None of those attributes is possible in a plain text file. A plain text file is just that - text with no formatting of any kind. The most you'll end up with is upper/lower-case text and tabs (tabs being characters in their own right). You'll have no indents, bold, italics, underlines, differences in font size or small caps.
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Poor choice of words on my part. I meant plain in the informal sense, not in the computer sense of *.txt. I just meant the typesetters probably don't want all kinds of styles to be used. Or even if they don't mind, it's no use employing styles since they'll disregard it. The only attributes carried over are bold & italics &c.
Unfortunately, they hardly ever provide clear guidelines (e.g. as to indentation).