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		rootnod3 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) Maybe unpopular, but papers should be in n markdown flavor to be determined. Just to have them more machine readable.

xigoi 12 days ago | [–]

Compared to HTML, Markdown is very bad at being mahcine-readable.

doc_ick 12 days ago | [–]

Not unpopular, but a lot of the publishing companies would have to agree to that and make their own formatting/structure rules.

I also haven’t had good luck with images/graphs/custom tables in anything but typist/latex.

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