> the use of a plain text document, not even a lightly-formatted HTML document, makes me think that they actively go out of their way to avoid using a word proc

> the use of a plain text document, not even a lightly-formatted HTML document, makes me think that they actively go out of their way to avoid using a word processor. This might also be because a plain text document is much more portable (even without needing a web browser to display them, but also can be displayed in a web browser too if wanted) and does not have the mess of formatting of modern HTML. (I often write many of my own documents as plain text files, too.)