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Part of it might be preference for plain text files with no vendor lock-in. Or it might be preference for explicitness, we've all fought with rich editors blee

Part of it might be preference for plain text files with no vendor lock-in. Or it might be preference for explicitness, we've all fought with rich editors bleeding format from one word into another and struggling to un-format the text at the right location.

michaericalribo 6y ago
To play devil's advocate, ODF is (a) open, and (b) native in Word. For that matter, docx is an ISO standard. On the other side, I perpetually have to unformat my hard-wrapped lines, before I paste plain text into eg an email...