Then you need to have editors specify which features they support and create common standards to make sure that two editors that support the same feature can ac

Then you need to have editors specify which features they support and create common standards to make sure that two editors that support the same feature can actually understand each others' encodings of it. It's unfortunately too true that we will never have a single, perfect standard in any domain. It falls upon us to create smaller standards and be explicit in which ones we each dabble in. Otherwise there are no standards at all.