[Gllug] Getting Linux to work with Freeserve (Wanadoo) Broadband

[Nix]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004, nix at esperi.org.uk stipulated:
> The only point he's got which makes a bit of sense is the default-is-
> text-not-markup one, and even there it's debatable: it depends on what
> you want to do with the document, and if it's machine-generated from
> lots of pieces the Lisp form may make sense. (Alternate readers can
> fix even that, of course, changing the stard and end-quote characters
> to something really unlikely to occur in a normal document.)

Actually, even that is wrong.

The ideal of markup systems (like TeX and HTML/XML) is to have text with
an absolute minimum number of changes emerge exactly as it went in
(reformatted appropriately). TeX fulfills this admirably, with extremely
few characters requiring escaping: HTML and XML, well, how many entities
do you want? Do you even know what they all *are*? (I know I don't.)

Bleah.

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