Re: djot - a new light markup language

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This is very interesting, especially the way curlies are used to make
opening/closing delimiters explicit and to extend the inventory of possible
delimiters. If I may I would like to suggest adding {|underline|},
{!strikeout!} and {.small caps.}.[^1]

Small caps are somewhat frequent in linguistics (mainly for grammatical
tags in interlinear glosses) so their absence is a problem for me, albeit a
problem which can be worked around with a span with a class.

I actually like the four space rule, but I guess nothing stops me from just
always make sure that a list marker is followed by at least three space
characters. Hopefully this will be easier to live with with indented code
blocks gone!

[^1]: Incidentally this is the same solution as I used in the home grown
lightweight markup which I used before I discovered Pandoc, except there
the curlies were always mandatory. I used a Perl hash mapping punctuation
characters to LaTeX command names and a simple regex substitution
`s/\{([[:punct:]])|[[:punct:]]\}/$1 ? "\\$command{$1}\{" : "}"/eg` except
that `[:punct:]` was the list of actually used characters. Those were the
days! FWIW I differentiated between {_emph_} for emphasis and {/textit/}
for object language.


Den tors 14 juli 2022 23:58John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I've been designing a new light markup syntax, based on the ideas in my
> essay "Beyond Markdown" (https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html).
> I thought readers of this list might be interested.  The language and its
> rationale are described here:  https://github.com/jgm/djot
>
> The repository also contains a very fast parser written in pure Lua.  A
> pandoc custom reader and custom writer are also provided, so you can
> convert your favorite formats to and from djot.
>
> The syntax is briefly described here:
> https://djot.net/playground/syntax.html
>
> You can play with the implementation here: https://djot.net/playground/
>
> John
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