RE: OT Palm readers Re: [dvd-discuss] CTEA Protects WhatCopyrights?

["Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold(at)world.std.com>]

At 3:23 PM -0800 2/6/03, Richard Hartman wrote:
>Actually some simple markup would be a really
>nice idea for Gutenberg ... call it GML.
>...
>
>There's something to be said for absolute
>bare-bones plain text ... you will _always_
>be able to read it ... but it will never
>be convenient.  A primitive markup standard
>for Gutenberg texts would be a welcome
>enhancement I think.

I'd argue for a simple subset of HTML. That would give you the best 
of both worlds. The source would still be in plain ASCII.  Some 
simple "pretty printing" (lines wrapped to a standard length, 
paragraph tags on separate lines, headers on their own line, etc.) 
can make the HTML source <I>reasonably</I> readable as is. And, of 
course, it would be understood by existing Web browsers.

Arnold Reinhold