Talk:Choosing The Right File Format/Text Documents

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The quote about Microsoft's XPS document format, " This format has already gained the support of many industry heavyweights and is poised to become a great format for archival purposes," seems like it was pulled from an advertisement without any actual comparison to PDF.

other formats
Should we say something here about formats that are designed to be relatively human-readable in a plain text editor -- and so are nearly as future-proof as plain ASCII text -- and yet allow slightly more formatting flexibility than ASCII text? I'm thinking of HTML, XHTML, LaTeX, TeX, YAML, Creole, and reStructuredText. I suspect that more documents are produced in those formats than in ODT, PDF, or XPS. --DavidCary (talk) 16:13, 19 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. Wikitext (esp Creole) has been my format of choice for some time, being easy to read, easy to generate "printable" formatted documents, and long-term good because it's UTF-8 text