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How come we don’t have plaintext symbols for the formatting basics: bold, italic, color? Maybe we could expand Unicode based on lessons learned from Markdown/t
by mch82 5y ago
How come we don’t have plaintext symbols for the formatting basics: bold, italic, color?
Maybe we could expand Unicode based on lessons learned from Markdown/typesetting & the formatting characters could be added as non-printing characters. Visibility could be toggled with other whitespace characters.
- zozbot234 5y agoYou can use the standard ANSI escapes, if no other markup is defined. Adding new formatting codes via Unicode just wouldn't change much.