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The implementation is clever, but. But. Does it do the one damn thing that no other MarkXXX dialect properly supports: poetry? by which I mean, can you have a t

by fernly 7y ago

The implementation is clever, but. But. Does it do the one damn thing that no other MarkXXX dialect properly supports: poetry? by which I mean, can you have a text block ("stanza") in which each line is a block that has full formatting (i.e. do not try to pawn me off with a code block!) but in which white space if fully respected (i.e. arbitrary indention is retained), and the ability to right-align an annotation ("line number") is available? And can you use it to write a play script (see any copy of Hamlet) and/or a film script?

JohnHaugeland 7y ago
Where can I see a screenshot of a correct result
- pmiller2 7y ago
  See the examples in the manual for the LaTeX verse environment: https://rcweb.dartmouth.edu/doc/texmf-dist/doc/latex/verse/verse.pdf https://rcweb.dartmouth.edu/doc/texmf-dist/doc/latex/verse/v...
CreRecombinase 7y ago
If you can get down with emacs, then org mode had you covered: https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html
- fernly 7y ago
  Thank you! I'd never heard of it. And, it's even one of the input formats to PanDoc. Huh.
- Finnucane 7y ago
  That doesn’t cover you for lines of poetry that are broken across lines of dialog.
Finnucane 7y ago
I think that there is going to be a limit to the intersection of ‘relatively simple markup for human authors’ and ‘can represent complex text formats’. For instance, TEI xml can do what you want (in fact, TEI markup for Shakespeare already exists), but of course it is a little more cumbersome, unless you are working in a good xml editor. And then, there is no good way to translate that back to HTML.
databasher 7y ago
Pandoc calls these "Line blocks": https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#line-blocks https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#line-blocks
g8oz 7y ago
For film scripts check out Screenplay Markdown now known as Fountain
chrismorgan 7y ago
reStructuredText handles this sort of thing well with its line blocks: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...

by fernly 7y ago

JohnHaugeland 7y ago

Where can I see a screenshot of a correct result

pmiller2 7y ago
See the examples in the manual for the LaTeX verse environment: https://rcweb.dartmouth.edu/doc/texmf-dist/doc/latex/verse/verse.pdf https://rcweb.dartmouth.edu/doc/texmf-dist/doc/latex/verse/v...

CreRecombinase 7y ago

If you can get down with emacs, then org mode had you covered: https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html

fernly 7y ago
Thank you! I'd never heard of it. And, it's even one of the input formats to PanDoc. Huh.
Finnucane 7y ago
That doesn’t cover you for lines of poetry that are broken across lines of dialog.

Finnucane 7y ago

I think that there is going to be a limit to the intersection of ‘relatively simple markup for human authors’ and ‘can represent complex text formats’. For instance, TEI xml can do what you want (in fact, TEI markup for Shakespeare already exists), but of course it is a little more cumbersome, unless you are working in a good xml editor. And then, there is no good way to translate that back to HTML.

databasher 7y ago

Pandoc calls these "Line blocks": https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#line-blocks https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#line-blocks

g8oz 7y ago

For film scripts check out Screenplay Markdown now known as Fountain

chrismorgan 7y ago

reStructuredText handles this sort of thing well with its line blocks: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtex...