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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by capableweb on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:20AM (#28105917)
That's why Calculist is not actually plain text. Markdown is not plain text!

> Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text

> Markdown, the simple and easy-to-use markup language

> Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web

It's formatted text or also called rich text.

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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by afarviral on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:08AM (#28106427)
It can be compiled to HTML and when viewed in a suitable viewer could be considered rich text, but markdown files are plaintext. Code sourcefiles are also plaintext. However, I think there should be another term (clean text?) that refers to text abscent of symbols which represent the markup. It would aid in conversation. For instance you might want to parse an HTML formatted document and be left with just the words and certain punctuation, or clean text (or something).
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Re:A plain text note-taking system for problem solving by kissgyorgy on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:50AM (#28113696)
If code source files are plain text, I'm a bacteria.
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