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By this is meant not only that the document is a plain text file, but that it has no information beyond "the text itself"--no representation of bold or italics, paragraph, page, chapter, or footnote boundaries, etc. Michael S. Hart, for example, argued that this "is the only text mode that is easy on both the eyes and the computer". Hart made the argument that proprietary word-processor formats made texts grossly inaccessible; but that is irrelevant to standard, open

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