<italic>On Sat, 5 Nov 1994, Steve Dorner wrote:</italic>


<excerpt>
  I predict that <fixed>text/enriched</fixed>, when it comes into full use,
  will be no more legible than <italic>RTF</italic> without a viewer.
  Less, probably, because of the nesting rule and the way indentation
  is handled.
</excerpt>


This isn't a problem so much with <fixed>text/enriched</fixed> as with
composition agents which don't take care to produce readable output.
With a small amount of formatting it can be made just as readable as
ordinary text.  <italic>Andrew</italic> is (or was: I haven't seen output
from the latest versions) one of the <bold>biggest</bold> culprits in
this area. 


<italic>RTF</italic> properly belongs under <fixed>application</fixed>
because it was never intended to be a readable format.  It is a
wordprocessor file exchange format, not something for direct human
consumption.  <fixed>Text/enriched</fixed> is intended for human
consumption, so composition agents must be more careful with their output.


Cheers,


Rhys.
