if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a ‘container’)
  3. daw session files .dawproject
  4. documents .odt
  5. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  6. models .gltf / .glb
  7. plain text utf-8
  8. interchange format .ora
  9. configuration files toml OR yaml (disagreement)
  10. typesetting typst
  11. open domain image data .exr
  12. lossless audio .flac
  13. lossy audio .opus
  14. subtitles srt/ass
  15. container mkv
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    9 months ago

    You can convert Markdown to a number of formats with pandoc, if you want to author in Markdown and just distribute in some other format.

    Not going to work if you need to collaborate with other people, though.