Re: Schemey markup (was Re: Doc Tasks)

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 06:47:29PM -0330, Greg Harvey wrote:
> > 
> > A better approach that could keep all of us happy :) might be to
> > define a simple set of tags that'll handle any formatting we might
> > want for docstrings.
> 
> I see all the arguments against that, but I can also give a
> handful of arguments _for_ that. And I was the guy who asked
> for sgml originally, I think.
> 
> But it so happens that
> 
> (foo
>   some text
> )
> 
> is nicer to type and grok than
> 
> <foo>
>   some text
> </foo>

This is what Latte does -- except it looks like

{\foo some text}

for obvious reasons.

<snip>

Greg