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I have long thought that we should extend the plain text format to allow putting provenance metadata into substrings in the file.

This is that, but a different implementation. Plain text is like two conductor cables; it’s so useful and cost effective but the moment you add a single abstraction layer above it (a data pin) you can do so much more cool stuff.



That would be an evolution of HTML. Plain text is just plain text by definition, it can't include markup and annotations etc.




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