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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.