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+An authoring style that has grown popular,
+especially among some programmers,
+is to write in a format called Markdown,
+and then compile the final document.
+
+Compared to word processors like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer,
+Markdown authoring stores both content and markup together
+in a human-readable tekst file.
+
+HTML is itself a plaintext format,
+but is less human-readable.
+Similarly the format LaTeX is also plaintext,
+but its markdown arguably distracts the reading process.
+
+Other human-readable document source formats exists.
+FIXME Org-mode.
+FIXME AsciiDoc.