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troff is a simple text format, so I thought about using it for a README.

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[–] robohack@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Traditionally README files have been the plainest of plain text to facilitate their widest accessibility.

Markdown does seem to provide some opportunity for optional formatting without too much ugliness when viewed as plain text.