bug#1397: RFC: A "markup mode"

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> Please find the current incarnation here:
>
>   git http://tuxteam.de/~tomas/Repositories/am
>
> Some remarks:
>
> Design:
>
> The idea is to support (nested) mark-ups like XML or Wiki, rendering
> them in a more-or-less WYSIWYG fashion (as far as Emacs supports that).
> The mapping between the markup elements and rendering whithin Emacs is
> done via a "style" file (which is at the moment just an elisp file
> containing faces and assorted fix-ups for special cases. Several
> examples of style files are contained in the above code sample.
>
> The markup model is more or less what we know from XML: spans of text
> are attached with a "markup class" and a (possibly empty) list of
> attributes. Those spans may be empty (the "singletons" in XML).

I think there's several of these markup modes in Emacs (and in the
various package repos), so I don't think this is that relevant any more
(seven years later).  Closing.

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