Significant characteristics of plain text files

From Action Plan: Plain Text, Florida Digital Archive

Significant Properties Plain text exhibits the following significant properties1. It is intended to preserve and evaluate these significant properties when adopting migration or normalization policy in the future.

• Content: All content, including every character, will be preserved.
• Context: N/A. Plain Text does not contain metadata to describe the environment where it was originally created or used.
• Behavior: N/A. Plain Text does not provide interactive characteristics.
• Structure: The location of every linebreak will be preserved. There is no other predefined structure for Plain Text.
• Appearance: N/A. Plain Text does not store appearance attributes such as font (including font size or font style), color, alignment, etc.