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Even for long documents with structure, gamefaqs has shown us that plain text can be used effectively there as well.

I would love to see government department information documents with ASCII art headings and Tables of Contents.

Not to mention Org Mode... but there's about a zero chance of emacs being picked up as 'standard'.

Perhaps Emacs could me made to produce ODF.

org-odt-export-to-odt

Perhaps Emacs could X

is nearly always true. Provided X is actually possible.