avoid mentioning YAML or TOML

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/_conclusion.qmd b/_conclusion.qmd
index 62a3d5e..859f8e1 100644
--- a/_conclusion.qmd
+++ b/_conclusion.qmd
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ illustrated in @fig-phases.
 
 Phase 2 will extend the Pandoc filter
 to support extraction of annotations,
-storing them as document-wide metadata in the Markdown YAML section.
+storing them as an initial document-wide metadata section.
 
 Phase 3 will extend the Pandoc filter further
 to support translating annotations
@@ -94,11 +94,14 @@ Both XMP and RDFa are concrete formulations (serializations)
 of Resource Description Framework (RDF),
 an abstract language for expressing semantics.
 
-Both phases 2 and 3 will involve a more intimate parsing of annotations,
-to resolve their RDF statements
-in the form of so-called subject-predicate-object triplets,
-in order to rephrase (serialize) them
-to better fit embedding in YAML, HTML and PDF, respectively.
+Both phases 2 and 3 will involve a more intimate parsing of annotations.
+Each annotation statement needs to be parsed into abstract RDF
+and then serialised into concrete forms more suitable
+for either of
+Markdown (document-wide),
+HTML (text-specific)
+and PDF (document-wide and/or text-specific),
+respectively.
 
 These extensions to the Pandoc-based workflow have uses in themselves,
 and also enables further explorations into more complex workflows.
diff --git a/_markdown.qmd b/_markdown.qmd
index 4c2adc0..ac75d96 100644
--- a/_markdown.qmd
+++ b/_markdown.qmd
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ to metadata embedding formats of both PDF and HTML
 ## Syntax of Markdown dialect Commonmark
 
 Markdown consists of blocks of content,
-optionally prepended a set of YAML-formatted Metadata blocks.
+optionally prepended a set of Metadata blocks.
 
 Visually, this can be described using a syntax diagram
 where the possible order of elements are laid out
diff --git a/_pandoc.qmd b/_pandoc.qmd
index 6f3653c..cef54a3 100644
--- a/_pandoc.qmd
+++ b/_pandoc.qmd
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ of the Markdown processor Pandoc.
 Many dialects of Markdown have evolved,
 some tightening the language for parsing efficiency and disambiguation,
 some extending to cover additional structures
-and some including support for a YAML or TOML metadata header section.
+and some including support for a metadata header section.
 
 Pandoc is a tool that can convert texts in Markdown dialects
 into many document formats including HTML and (via LaTeX) PDF,