Ferryt Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 You left out one of the most ubiquitous text formats around -- rtf (rich text format), which any platform of which I'm aware can handle. It's far superior to .txt and there are many inexpensive (read that "absolutely free") rtf-compliant programs, and Windows even comes with one already installed (Wordpad). Using rtf you can format your document in ways which are supported by high-end word processors, including indenting, various fonts, colors of text, and even insert images and create hyperlinks which will open up other documents or even call your default browser to open up a webpage. Unlike pdf readers, rtf-compliant text processors have a small footprint and don't hog system resources, either (unless you're using one of the full-blown word processors like Word, Open Office, or some such program). So, yeah ... definitely ".rtf" all the way for documentation.
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