Re: !MML

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Double er.  The problem with this is that `This is plain text.'
> must not contain closed parentheses -- or its parens must be balanced, 
> depending on how you implement it -- but both strike me as wrong.

Yes.  I don't think Lisp is the right thing for free text.

> Again, perhaps it's just me and everyone else is ha-ha-happy about
> these design ideas for multipart composition.

The problem with any document language is that it makes it difficult
to talk about the language itself.  Trying to write a manual on LaTeX
(without \verbatim available) would be a nightmare, for instance.  So
any language we decide on has to be able to talk about itself.  The
MML language (which has only four commands, <part ...>, <multipart
...>, </part> and </multipart> makes it quite easy to achieve this --
one could, for instance, demand that users write <!part> to talk about 
<part>.

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