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Re: Why is text marked up ?

• From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
• To: <dlee@calldei.com>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:58:45 +0000

David Lee writes:

> "Why is text marked up" ? 

To make explicit for mechanical processing what is
implicit-but-evident in the original.

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