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- IdeaLogging. See MarkupEngines.
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- Broadly speaking, I suppose the semantics of poetry are essentially the semantics of human language. But the ''syntax'' seems to have special properties - linebreaks and so forth conveying structure.
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- Here's a place where I'm glad I've spent some time programming, and some time failing to learn Latin. Both have given me a better idea of how available structure influences expression. Not unlike code, poems as written are full of meaningful whitespace and distinct but interrelated units of expression - units which might even map better to the idea of lines & blocks in code than they do to sentences and paragraphs in prose.
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- There's a design goal for a markup language: Echo the expressive possibilities of poetry.
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- Macro expansion is a giant swamp, isn't it?
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- What about the idea of "environments"?
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- _ {
- alias: italics
- end: self
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- * {
- alias: italics
- end: self
- }
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- italics {
- }
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- ...so on and so forth?
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- It's late and I don't know what I'm on about.
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