Hello again!
This is the revised revised revised proposal:
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.md
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html
http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.pdf
The main change was to use an opening string of brace+colon "{:" to
not lock-up the precious "{" forever, so that in the future one could
think of using the braces also for other purposes.
Changes were:
* Changed the syntax for compatibility with a future extension mechanism.
The first character in the curly braces must be a colon, optionally
followed by a space:
{: ref .class #id}
The old syntax was `{ref .class #id}`.
For ALDs, the new syntax is:
{:ref_id: key=val .class #id }
instead of:
{ref_id}: key=val .class #id
Converters that don't use this syntax may just ignore everything
which is in curly braces and starts with ":".
For regexp-based interpreters, this is the regular expression to
get rid of this stuff: `/\{:(\\\}|[^\}])*\}/`. Just do a
`gsub` with the empty
string, and you are done.
* IAL can be put both *before* and *after* the element.
There is no ambiguity as a blank line is needed between elements:
Paragraph 1
{:par2}
Paragraph 2
is equivalent to:
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
{:par2}
* Simplified rules for escaping.
--
Andrea Censi
"Life is too important to be taken seriously" (Oscar Wilde)
Web: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~censi