Plain text, with lines

Re:Plain text, with lines by dheera on Monday June 06, 2022 @12:11PM (#31642297)

I just use HTML. Personally I detest Markdown, I cannot remember how many asterisks is bold, how many is underline, how many is italic, in HTML it's just <b>, <u>, <i>, much more human-friendly.

And HTML allows inserting SVG or image data URLs in-line as plain text which isn't far off from what this is.

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Re:Plain text, with lines by desertlounger on Monday June 06, 2022 @06:18PM (#31647119)

And if you write "polyglot" html (html written as syntactically correct xml) then you can use xpath or other tools to extract data from it (i.e. from tables).

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