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

[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 closing tag.
...
> Here is some <b<bold text>.
> Here is some <i<italic text>.
> Here is some <smallcaps<small cap text>.
...
> Here is <bold, size +2<bold and larger text>

I struggle to read the <b<bold text> syntax though, and I suspect enough
non-programmers have been exposed to HTML-like syntax in forum software,
etc., that they to are used to <> balancing.  Editors may also provide
"matching bracket" functionality for <>, as with [], etc.  Were syntaxes
like

    Here is some <b:bold text>.
    Here is some <i:italic text>.
    Here is some <smallcaps:small cap text>.
    Here is <bold, size +2:bold and larger text>

considered, with the first colon marking the separation?

    <b:Bold and <i:bold-italic>> text.

Cheers, Ralph.