Plain text, with lines
It is said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. » S-expressions can be an answer to write "plain text with lines", for instance
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