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Hello Richard,<br>
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When you say "(for) some people (...) you special syntax is not
natural"<br>
that's a good thing. I want these people involved in the project. I
want<br>
to understand what they find natural in order to weigh the options
and<br>
make a proper decision.<br>
<br>
On the README file in the github page you will find a brief
explanation<br>
of the markup elements. I need to elaborate you that though because<br>
I feel I explain it too fast.<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/jabolopes/fmark">https://github.com/jabolopes/fmark</a><br>
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Let me answer your questions about sections. The amount of
indentation<br>
is not fixed. You can use whatever you want. There is also no
nesting limit<br>
in Fmark, however, there is a nesting limit in the Latex backend.
For now,<br>
quotations, block quotes, source code embedding, etc, are not
implemented.<br>
Those will be added in the future.<br>
<br>
About embedding a Fmark document in another document. That seems to<br>
be a very cool feature. I will definitely think about it! Maybe you
can come<br>
up with a "natural" way of doing it?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
José<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18-09-2012 06:19, Richard O'Keefe
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On 18/09/2012, at 3:57 PM, José Lopes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The problem with Fmark is also its greatest feature. While other markup languages
introduce special syntactic characters to give meaning to the document's elements,
I would like to take a different approach: I want to use characters that people already
use in document writing to achieve the same result. For example, in Mediawiki a
heading is some text surrounded by equal signs. But in Fmark a heading is simply some
text that does not end in a punctuation character, such as period or an exclamation mark.
I argue that this is a more "natural" approach.
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The problem with that is that some people DO end some headings with
a full stop; for them your special syntax is not natural.
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I want to find a natural way of not burdening the user with the task of having to learn
some special syntax in order to write a document.
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You haven't found it. What you *have* is very special syntax expressed using
several methods, AND IT IS NOT DOCUMENTED. I have read the examples, and I can
find nothing explaining what the syntax is.
For example, I find indenting subsections rather unnatural and error-prone.
(For example, moving a paragraph from a deep location to a shallow one would
create a new subsection unintentionally.)
Is the amount of indentation fixed? How many levels of subsections are
supported? What if I want to use indentation to express quotation instead?
How do I embed source code? How can you get an example of Fmark in an
Fmark document without having it acted on? I could go on and on with
questions about syntax.
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José António Branquinho de Oliveira Lopes
Instituto Superior Técnico
Technical University of Lisbon</pre>
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