ORIGINAL — PLAIN TEXT STANDARDS
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Version 1.0 — 2026-10-14
License: CC BY 4.0

Placeholder edition. A short set of rules for files published on this
site, so that they all look and behave the same way.

THE RULES
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  1. ASCII first. Extended characters only where the content demands them.
  2. Hard-wrap at 76 columns. Never tabs; two spaces for indentation.
  3. LF line endings. A single trailing newline at end of file.
  4. No metadata beyond a short header block, as seen above.
  5. The .txt extension is honest: it means what you see is the file.

FILE HEADERS
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  TITLE
  =====
  Version X.Y — YYYY-MM-DD
  License: <license>

  Body text...

WHY PLAIN TEXT
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Everything survives: text opens in fifty years, on machines that do not
exist yet. Formats come and go. Text is the format that does not go.

END OF STANDARDS