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On 20/01/12 20:28, John Cowan wrote: > Peter Flynn scripsit: > >>> A) "Marking up bits of text where needed" >>> And >>> B) "A full text markup vocabulary for encoding an entire document" >> >> I'm finding it hard to see a use case for (A) at all. I'm not aware of >> it ever being done. > > In LMNL, the tags express not containment but ranges, which may or may > not overlap. There is no requirement to tag the whole-document range. > Indeed, as soon as you have escaped the LMNL markup start characters > [ and {, any plain-text document becomes well-formed LMNL. Thank you for reminding me -- a good example. I don't remember (and now cannot find, as most of the links there have broken over time) details of how LMNL announces its presence: is this assumed to be in the filetype, or is there a marker somewhere? Other than the simple presence of the markup characters themselves, which could arbitrarily occur in any type of document. I was taking (A) to mean marking up a fragment inside a document *without* heralding the fact. I really don't see a use case for that, apart from providing for serendipitous discovery. ///Peter
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