IdeaLogging. See MarkupEngines.

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.

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.

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?

What about the idea of "environments"?

  _ {
    alias: italics
    end:   self
  }

  * {
    alias: italics
    end:   self
  }

  italics {
  }

...so on and so forth?

It's late and I don't know what I'm on about.

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