plain text – rnbn

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How could a nearly ten-years-old writing technology continue to grow in professional and enthusiast spaces but also be largely absent among those who teach and research writing?

Source: Writing Workflows | Introduction

School sends a lot of proprietary formats our way. Instead of publishing text directly to the open web, Word docs & slides & images & other unnecessary convolutions that harm readability, accessibility, & security are published. Just blog. Let plain text be plain.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2014/04/14/please-stop-sending-me-your-shitty-word-documents/