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abraxas on Feb 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equ...

This is why Microsoft invented OLE many decades ago. Admittedly it was a clunky, heavy and proprietary solution just like most other tech out of that company.

xtracto on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

XML (via svg) can potentially be great for that... it saves the "what" so we only need software that does something useful with it.

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