We are going to have real italics to work with. I want things in plain text in that format so I have a standard format which will be easy to convert to HTML, and give people the option of having either plain text or HTML versions of the story.
The reason I don't even want things in HTML is that I would, sure as apples are apples, have to spend an inordinate amount of time fixing up the horrible, horrible HTML which MS-Word produces. Better to start completely clean, and require plain text. Even if that requires tidying up (and it probably would, for some people) the amount of tidying up would be smaller, I think.
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The reason I don't even want things in HTML is that I would, sure as apples are apples, have to spend an inordinate amount of time fixing up the horrible, horrible HTML which MS-Word produces. Better to start completely clean, and require plain text. Even if that requires tidying up (and it probably would, for some people) the amount of tidying up would be smaller, I think.