On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:04 PM James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > A new beta of BabelPad has been released which enables input, storing, > and display of italics, bold, strikethrough, and underline in plain-text
Okay? Ed can do that too, along with nano and notepad. It's called HTML (TeX, Troff). If by plain-text, you mean self-interpeting, without external standards, then it's simply impossible. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.