💄📝 Les·M·L
Posted: Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 21:59 EDT
This is a thread for my silly little markup language that I use to write boring texts as an alternative to Markdown!
- 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 text spans:
{@attribute="value"}. The old language‐tag‐specific syntax for offset text,⟨blah⟩@en$, is removed in favour of just doing⟨blah⟩{@lang="en"}, - You can, however, now apply language tags to block elements using the
@en$syntax after the element id (or pilcrow if no id is present). - Quotations are now marked up by leading each line with
»and can be nested, as opposed to being determined by leading white·space and not being nestable. - When you start each line with
], it creates a footer, with the exception that a footer which ends a blockquote becomes a figcaption for the containing figure. This replaces the old captioning mechanism. - You can now use continuation paragraphs with headings to create hgroups.
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#!lesml@en$
⁌ My Document
With a subheading that used to just be treated as an ordinary paragraph.
This is some text containing ⟨español⟩@es$.
Pero éste es más dificil a indicar.
Here is a blockquote.
“A nested quote couldn’t be marked up before.”
— A caption for the quote.
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#!lesml@en$
⁌ My Document
⋯ With a subheading that used to just be treated as an ordinary paragraph.
This is some text containing ⟨español⟩{@lang="es"}.
¶@es$ Pero éste es más dificil a indicar.
» Here is a blockquote.
»
» » A nested quote couldn’t be marked up before.
»
» ] A caption for the quote.
@en$ syntax for inlines as a shorthand for writing {@lang="en"}, but I haven’t decided yet. It’s maybe a little harder to parse in an inline context.