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By Thom Barron

there is so much friction in writing. sometimes slowing you down. sometimes killing the project. obstructions. monotonies. much of it needless. i'm talking about font choice, spacing, padding, color, bold/italics, images, graphs, page numbers, alignment, and formatting in general. all that extra fluff. standing in-between you and actually publishing. these kinds of inconveniences solely exist in the world of rich text. this is text with embedded information. think docx, pdf, html, md, and almost everything you write in. plain text is different. it is the rawest format one can type in. with limitations that free you to actually put words to the page. it is substantially faster for many reasons (beyond just minimalism nonsense). an indestructible format. loading seamlessly on even the oldest of computers. yet still relevant today. in this short book i want to defend plain text. or at least argue why one should use it. right in notepad/textedit/vi. nothing fancy. as for how i write, well... i think that i'm funny. at least i try to be. maybe this book will get you giggling. or crying in the more intense chapters. who knows? this is my manifesto about plain text. read at your own risk.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D7Q4MS75
• ISBN13: 9798329043754
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 39 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"