The future of education is plain text

Re:The future of education is plain text by pyre on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:23AM (#14545443)

If you distribute things in Markdown with (e.g.) MathML markup, then the reader can format that nicely for display, with PlainText / Markdown being the distribution format.

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Re:The future of education is plain text by emodendroket on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:27AM (#14545485)

I think it really stretches the definition of "plain text" by the time you need a parser.

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Re:The future of education is plain text by posterboy on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @06:32PM (#14549238)

I don't think it does, as I thought the title refered to the ubiquitous "view source" web tech compared to binary blobs.

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