keith said:
I would not call BB's idea or concepts BS.
so, is that what jim is saying now? that's a laugh. see if you can figure out exactly what he means...
They have their merit as you well say, below.
please please please do not take jim's word for it! i disclaim him, loudly, as _any_ sort of a reference.
I agree doing references is a big pain. The problem is that there is no sure way to get it right. Some can be done semi-automatically. Yet, most will have to been corrected.
i'm not sure what you're talking about here... but i'm pretty sure that if i did, i would disagree. :+) but it's useless to talk about these things "abstractly". you have to work with real texts, so you can _assess_ the accuracy of algorithms, using objective measures. because "opinions" don't mean jack, or hold any water. write code, or go home. that's what it boils down to... write code, or go home.
BB is trying to develop a minimal mark-up set.
not really. my mark-up can be as extensive as needed. anything your angle-brackets can do, so can my _zen_. all i have to do is devise the methodology to perform it. or hey, try ascii-doc, or restructured-text, if you prefer. they are light-markup systems that are hardly "minimal", and you'll learn that their methodology is already devised. of course, if anybody here really wanted to learn anything, you know, they would've already done it, several years ago. -bowerbird