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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 14:42:24 JST Adrian Cochrane
@colinsmatt11 @doctormo @RL_Dane @james Basically Markdown's very human-readable in any tool that supports text, but its not well standardized & *well-structured* HTML is easier to parse. Whilst allowing for new semantics to be added without fear of breaking anything, unlike Markdown.

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- Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:13:13 JST Adrian Cochrane
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  @colinsmatt11 @doctormo @RL_Dane @james I can understand that others might not like HTML's syntax, but personally I do! I find the explicit closing tags makes the document structure more legible.
  
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- MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:13:14 JST MattZ
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  @alcinnz @doctormo @RL_Dane @james As for parsing the HTML I agree it's one of major reasons why people don't like it and XML by extention.
  
  I think there needs to be a better syntax for it, and bringing the Lisper inside me would recommend SXML (S-expression syntax for XML) it solves a lot of issues with parsing as S-exps are one tye easiest things to parse. (Thus so many "make your own language" tutorials make a lisp)
  
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- MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:13:15 JST MattZ
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  @alcinnz @doctormo @RL_Dane @james The agree markdown is great if basic features like notes, tasklist, etc
  
  But many document require some structure and be extendable like presentation, letters, etc.
  
  While yes, you can do that with markdown but it likely confuse some people and even software.
  
  Like you can't do
  >[ image as a link ![ Image Alt ](link.to/img)](link.to/img-as-link)
  In many markdown editors and viewes, and I got this snippet where its was functioning.
  
  * Btw there's Slidev if you want to make presentation from markdown files. Made by Vue devs which also made Elk, from webtoo.ls
  
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- Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:14:57 JST Adrian Cochrane
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  @colinsmatt11 @doctormo @RL_Dane @james Not in depth, but I do believe I've seen it.
  
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- MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:14:58 JST MattZ
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  @alcinnz @doctormo @RL_Dane @james Have to looked at SXML?
  
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- MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:18:23 JST MattZ
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  @alcinnz @doctormo @RL_Dane @james Btw there's has been not a lot of development on typesetting documents as far as I know.
  
  LaTeX is very much the best for absolute control over typesetting.
  
  I wish Document foundation included more than just documents of office purposes.
  
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  Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
- MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 15:27:44 JST MattZ
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  @alcinnz @doctormo @RL_Dane @james I personally think there needs to be a differentiation between production and distribution formats.
  
  Like XLSX (Excel) is a production format and CSV is a distribution format, while both are spreadsheet formats.
  
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