Skribilo reader

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

Follow up of <https://yhetil.org/guix/87zgcpiqcv.fsf@gnu.org>. :-)

The question is about more Skribilo readers with less parenthesis.  As
Racket Scribble, which appears like yet another markup language (but not
yaml ;-)).

>>>> Is it possible to have a Skribilo reader which would use less
>>>> parenthesis?  Similar to Racket Scribble?
>>>
>>> Definitely, there’s already a couple of them and we could add one with a
>>> syntax similar to Texinfo or Scribble.

[...]

>> Well, if it is possible to implement something similar to Texinfo, why
>> not similar to LaTeX which is more popular for scientific authoring
>> system than all the others.

> Because LaTeX (really: TeX) has the wrong abstraction level.

I am not sure to understand.  We are speaking about the surface syntax
and if it possible to implement a Skribilo reader, then I am missing why
it would not be possible for some LaTeX syntax.

For instance, the Texinfo manual reads,

        A Texinfo source file is a plain text file containing text interspersed
        with @-commands (words preceded by an ‘@’) that tell the Texinfo
        processors what to do. Texinfo’s markup commands are almost entirely
        semantic; that is, they specify the intended meaning of text in the
        document, rather than physical formatting instructions.

        
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/texinfo.html#Overview

and Texinfo is a complex Perl program parsing and outputting for
different backend, no?

Do you mean that LaTeX markup is more than “semantic”?  Aside LaTeX
macro.


Cheers,
simon

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