From: "Robert Comer" 

There's nothing in plain text to carry that information, it's just
character codes that correspond to printable characters.

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Bob Comer





"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558d26e{at}w3.nls.net...
> Well I suppose that's true.  Plain text or monospaced fonts anyway are
> capable of using the bold and italic attributes.  So I was thinking why
> shouldn't plain text messages be able to use plain text bold, italic, and
> underline fonts?
>
> Gary
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> Isn't that a contradiction?
>>
>> Plain Text, is Plain Text.
>>
>> Anything with color/bold/Italic is either Rich Text, or HTML.
>>

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