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twelve40 ◴[] No.42956704[source]
Isn't it amazing how one company invented a universally spread format that takes structured data from an editor (except images obviously) and converts it into a completely fucked-up unstructured form that then requires expensive voodoo magic to convert back into structured data.
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shermantanktop ◴[] No.42956872[source]
is "put this glyph at coordinate (x,y)" really what you'd call "structured"?
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1. irjustin ◴[] No.42959081[source]
It's not the structure that allows meaningful understanding.

Something that was clearly a table now becomes a bunch of glphy's physically close to eachother vs a group of other glphys but when considered as a group is a box visually separated from another group of glphys but actually part of a table.