AP> I'm worried that it encroaches on HTML functionality. Shouldn't
AP> we use HTML to specify styles?
Yes. Absolutely.
AP> However, I don't think it's fair to make browser developers parse
AP> HTML at this stage.
Supporting a few basic features (paragraphs, sections, emphasis) would
be good enough for a start. It's easy to ignore other markups.
Browsers could even farm out HTML parsing (and conversion to ascii,
postscript, or some other format) to some existing program.
There will be tons of text online in HTML. I think introducing another
format, especially when there's already one that does exactly what we
need, would be a big mistake.