Explorations into the use of plaintext txt files for various applications within the Saint Maker and University have proven fruitful. But it did bring up the problem of formatting, difficult to format a research paper with just text, at least considering the popular stylesheets in academic circles at present.
After some research, I put together this rudimentary stylesheet for txt files: https://davidbaunach.com/writings/a-saint-maker-plaintext-stylesheet.txt
In the future I'll try using the stylesheet on a few longer essays on my personal site, and will report back successes and failures. As this develops it will be useful for the University Library projects.