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by thangalin 1165 days ago
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).
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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.
Note that context also support for spreadsheet like calculations in tables, so it could perhaps be translated at markup level.