Just a word about ASCII for people accustomed to sophisticated word-processors: many word processors, when you tell them to save in ASCII or "text" put it into an odd form, which translates the word-processor's "soft line-ends" into simple blank spaces, so the text comes out as a series of one-line paragraphs, often separated by nothing.

If you prepare a text for ASCII, it's well to format it with hard line-ends, and keep them to 70 characters or so.