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		thangalin on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Sheet Markup – add spreadsheets to a Mark... KeenWrite uses the Java-based FlyingSaucer library for rendering HTML in the preview. Moreover, KeenWrite exports Markdown as XHTML, which ConTeXt imports for typesetting into PDF. While Sheet Markdown would be a fun integration, it would have to execute prior to displaying (i.e., not use JavaScript for in-browser rendering, but use Java to preprocess the Markdown tables before inserting into the XHTML).

diarmuid_glynn on April 13, 2023 [–]

Thanks for the explanation. I think integrating Sheet Markup with that process would be challenging, since (as I understand it) XHTML doesn't support canvas.

adiM on April 13, 2023 | [–]

Note that context also support for spreadsheet like calculations in tables, so it could perhaps be translated at markup level.

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