I did a bunch of work this weekend and made a new release. Some hilights :⁠—


You can now use ⌦ and ⌫ to mark up inline comments. ⌧ can be used as a shorthand for an empty comment, which can be used to break up spans of text.
There is now a syntax for applying attributes to inline elements or ...

This is a thread for my silly little markup language that I use to write boring texts as an alternative to Markdown!

Added terms from a few more vocabularies:

• Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
• Portland Common Data Model
• Ordered List Ontology

These latter ones build on the first; in particular, Ordered Lists and their Slots are simply special cases of Aggregations and Proxies.

The subject line is generic but this is a question about capitalization in English. Suppose you have the following T·E·I :⁠—


<p>
This is a sample sentence that <addName>Lady</addName> is using to demonstrate
<name>T·E·I</name> functionality for her blog.<milestone unit="sentence"/>
This is a ...

This release introduces a number of new variables :—


FINDFILTERONLY , FINDFILTEROUT , FINDINCLUDEFILTERONLY , and FINDINCLUDEFILTEROUT enable the use of regular expressions to filter which files are found by ⛩📰 书社 as sources and includes. By default these are “basic” regular expressions; for ...

I went ahead and released it!

I was hoping to document things better before·hand and maybe write some tutorials and such, but really hard to find the motivation or energy when this is probably a tool that only I will ever use. So I’m calling this “good enough” for now.

the thing i'm least clear on, though, is what does one do for stuff that's just, a text, in 书社. large chunks of my rules summaries (and conlang descriptions) are just text formatted for readability and easy reference (currently written mostly in markdown and HTML respectively). would that just be ...

i can't say i fully understand this BUT i would love to know more as i find it quite fascinating!


It’s hard to judge what anyone’s level of experience with this stuff is, but I know you know about the fediverse, so I’ll work my way backwards :⁠—


The contemporary, Mastodon‐compatible ...

wait omg this is really damn cool! i don't ever think i've seen something like a static site generator that's XML and makefile based. i might have to give this a try even though i don't know XML stuff at all (<-- can barely make an RSS feed from scratch lol)


Prior art is Shrine-XSLT , which was ...

I only know about it because it is written by the same person as wrote ‘Modern C’, which I am currently reading, but are you aware of EĿlipsis? It claims « Currently we have rudimentary support for lex and for general text processing languages, and more specifically for html and markdown. »

https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2021/ ... ontinuous/

I am constantly thinking about this essay, so it seemed like as good a thing as any to get this category started with.

The following is a highly‐critical review of the book on Amazon :⁠—


First off, like all academic texts, written by academics living and working inside the walls of the University-apparatus, the writing of the book is dull, uninspired, and seriously lacking in energy, including any memorable ...