>> Now, for the youngsters XML, TeX, HTML are per definition plain text files. > > No, they are text files, not /plain/ text files. Look > at some mime types : > > text/plain (for plain text) > text/html (for HTML)
It depends on who is reading them. Their markup is markup only fron the point of view of their interpreters, i.e. *TeX, etc. From the point of view of something else, they are plain. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex