Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Doug McIlroy
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Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
"James K. Lowden" wrote: |On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:32:38 +0100 |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> I think plain SGML is still an interesting language, much |> better than what XML made of it. | |As Dijkstra said of Algol, "an improvement over many of its |successors." | |> I had a time when i

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hi, Yves Cloutier wrote: |Thanks for your comment. It however wasn't real fun for i guess, but it is great that you don't mind. |Closing a inline formatting stack with a single closing bracket was a |design decision meant to reduce the noise added to running text. It's |meant to keep the r

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread James K. Lowden
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:32:38 +0100 Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > I think plain SGML is still an interesting language, much > better than what XML made of it. As Dijkstra said of Algol, "an improvement over many of its successors." > I had a time when i liked rst, but pimping POD is possibly nic

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Yves Cloutier
I forgot to add: I also like markdown and friends. In fact my first attempt was a Pandoc Pluggin that would convert Markdown to groff. I think it's still no my git. The problem it didn't address was styling my document or other formatting options for a book I was working on. Markdown and friends

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Yves Cloutier
Hello Steffen, Thanks for your comment. Closing a inline formatting stack with a single closing bracket was a design decision meant to reduce the noise added to running text. It's meant to keep the running text more readable. For example: some text vs or even the sugared version: . I'm no

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Yves Cloutier
Hello Ralph, Thanks for your feedback. Actually no, I don't think the syntax was considered. You are right though - most editors have a parens balancing feature, which could potentially make the <...<...> syntax a hassle to work with, if you constantly have to delete bracket. I'll add this to t

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ralph Corderoy wrote: |> The project on github: https://github.com/cloutiy/tml |> Extensive documentation on its wiki: https://github.com/cloutiy/tml/wiki | |Interesting, and I'll look more when I've time. | |> Inline formatting has a nice clean syntax that resembles HTML, but |> much clean

Re: [Groff] Typesetting Markup Language (TML) - a Superset of Groff

2016-01-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Yves, > The project on github: https://github.com/cloutiy/tml > Extensive documentation on its wiki: https://github.com/cloutiy/tml/wiki Interesting, and I'll look more when I've time. > Inline formatting has a nice clean syntax that resembles HTML, but > much cleaner - you just need 1 closin