From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote at 04:27 this Wednesday (GMT):   
   > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:22:51 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:   
   >   
   >> There's a paper by Leslie Lamport that says that a document should be   
   >> /logically/ structured.  That's paper 76 on his list on his homepage.   
   >> Although he seems more concerned with mathematical papers, most of the   
   >> ideas surely apply to everything else.   
   >   
   > A key thing I find with plain-text-plus-markup is that it can be put into   
   > version-control systems and managed collaboratively, just like program   
   > source code. WYSIWYG document processors may have change tracking, but   
   > they’re invariably pretty primitive compared to the branching and merging   
   > capabilities of a modern VCS like Git.   
      
      
   That goes back to the whole "plain text* works on everything" thing, you   
   can grep it for a specific phrase, concatinate pieces together, use   
   /any/ text editor (notepad, anyone?), etc.   
      
   *unicode does mess some stuff up but generally compatibility is pretty   
   good, and i think theres a special code for embedding a unicode char in   
   md   
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