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I wish there was a more standardized open format for documents. And more people and software should use markdown/.md because you just don't need anything fancier for most types of documents.
Yes, but only if everyone adhere to CommonMark version of Markdown.
Nah, Pandoc Markdown is the true path.
why, what even is markdown
I agree, we need support for it in libreoffice and than other document editors.
We can not expect people to use codes, but editor that saves to it would be grat.
Standardized open format for documents might have been the only ISO meeting where people were protesting in the streets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
So now ISO officially has two standard formats for the exact same thing!
Impressive! Thanks for sharing. I didn't know there was a standard. So if someone sends me a docx I can ask them for an iso format now :)
Well, actually ODF came first, to which MS paniked (governments liking standards), so they then remade their office formats to OOXML. Except most of it proprietary extensions, 600 page confusing documentation, bribery during standardization (ECMA, they failed ISO), etc.