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From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Usenet in Hypertext form
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Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 11:53:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 11:53:44 1987
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I would suggest, for those actively interested in such things, that
you select an escape sequence that doesn't look a whole lot like that
used in popular WP software.  Good examples of what not to select:
	\(xx	for many "xx", is nroff/troff special char
	@foo	for many foo, is scribe-form crud
	0x80+n	for most <n>, the high bit may get lost

In general, I suggest that people implementing new software not
implement systems which are likely to choke on many of the files
existing on their systems.  Sensitivity to nroff/troff/pic input, for
instance, would be inapropriate in a system dealing with text which
might reasonably expect to be fed such text.  Sensitivity to the
high-order bit in a char would be inapropriate in a text processing
package which might get ported to EBCDIC environments.

					Tanner Andrews, Systems
					CompuData, Inc.  DeLand