Automatically recognize source document type

[SebastianZ]

The type of the input document should automatically be recognized based on the file extension and, if possible, on its content.

This avoids having to manually select the type, which quickly gets repetitive when you're mainly or only working on Bikeshed specs.

Sebastian

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