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

[Yves Cloutier]

Hello Ralph,

Thanks for your feedback.

Actually no, I don't think the <format-option:text> 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 the github to not lose track of it.




On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>
wrote:

> 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.
>