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diff --git a/_formats.qmd b/_formats.qmd deleted file mode 100644 index 092c989..0000000 --- a/_formats.qmd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -This project mainly involves navigating in and altering data structures. -Main data structures are the document formats Markdown, HTML and PDF, -and the abstract data language RDF, -serialised as RDFa (embedded in HTML) and PDF (embedded in PDF). - -## Markdown - -Markdown is a text markup language -with an emphasis on being easy for humans to read -[@Gruber2004]. - -Compared to word processors like Microsoft Word and LibreOffice Writer, -Markdown authoring stores both content and markup together -in a human-readable tekst file. - -::: {#fig-formality} - -``` -informal /---------formatted text----------\ formal -<------v-------------v-------------v-----------------------v----> - plain text informal markup formal markup binary format - (Markdown) (HTML, XML, etc.) -``` - -Markdown is informal, ASCII-based markup -[@Leonard2016, p. 4] - -::: - -HTML is itself a plaintext format, -but is less human-readable. -Similarly the format LaTeX is also plaintext, -but its markdown arguably distracts the reading process -[@Mailund2019chap2, p. 9]. - -### Alternatives - -Other human-readable document source formats exists. - -*TODO: briefly cover reStructuredText, Org-mode and AsciiDoc.* - -### Integration - -Markdown is in widespread use. - -Major source forges use Markdown by default for `README` files -[@Github2025; @GitLab2025; @Codeberg2024]. -Some major programming languages -natively support Markdown in embedded docstrings -in core tools -[@Microsoft2023; @Oracle2025; @RustTeam2024]; -others offer optional support e.g. through plugins -[@Heesch2025; @Sphinx2025; @JSDoc2023]. - -## HTML - -*TODO* - -## PDF - -*TODO* - -## RDF - -*TODO* - -### RDFa - -*TODO* - -### XMP - -*TODO* |