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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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_ {
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alias: italics
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end: self
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}
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* {
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alias: italics
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end: self
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}
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italics {
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}
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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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