Rich Text, Poor Text (2013)

Title: Rich Text, Poor Text Author: Adam Moore (LÆMEUR) Date: February 9, 2013 Revisited: January 17, 2014 Rich Text, Poor Text Bold, italic, subscript , superscript, underlines , strike-throughs — I don't find any of these presentational attributes of text any more frivolous than quotation marks and exclamation points. I mean, really, if the goal was to be starkly minimalistic about it, we could write prose for electronic transmission with letters, spaces and line-breaks, and throw-out all the explicit markup. We don't call it "markup" when it's been around for more than fifty years, we call it punctuation instead, but it's the same thing. THE WRITTEN WORD HAS QUITE A FORCEFUL APPEARANCE THIS WAY ALTHOUGH AS STATED IN MY LAST ESSAY IT IS SOMEWHAT LACKING IN NUANCE IT LACKS ALSO FLEXIBILITY ONE MUST STRUCTURE THEIR STATEMENTS WITH CONSIDERABLY MORE CLARITY WHEN THEY DO NOT HAVE THE CRUTCH OF COMMAS AND PARENTHESIS AND OTHER DELIMITERS TO LEAN UPON But n ... Read full article.