[Doc-SIG] Monty: A structured text syntax idea

[Greg Ward]

On 29 January 2000, Sean Mc Grath said:
> """
> idea:
> 	para:
> 		I was editing some text in Python emacs mode the
> 		other day.
> 	para:
> 		I got to thinking how Python mandatory indentation
> 		emph:
> 			removes
> 		much of the need for delimiters


Auughh!!!  Shades of troff here.  (That's not a good thing.)  Newlines
are a fine delimiter in a programming language, where the semantic
chunks tend to be on the order of 20-60 characters, and we need all the
help we can get to guide our eyes.  Natural language can have much
smaller semantic chunks -- eg. emphasized words -- so artificially
splitting lines so often is a waste of vertical real-estate.

I think I'll wait for whatever Moshe proposes... (I just hope it uses
something B<sensible> to emphasise text... >grin<)

        Greg