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

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Thu Feb 3 10:09:00 EST 2000


> > """
> > 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

I don't like it. For blocks its okay, but for inline thinks it - sucks.
In tag language (XML etc.), things get nested much too deep to use this
proposal. And blocks are much longer. It should be clear what tag is
closed. I don't like it.

I think XML suits better.

regards,
Gerrit.

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