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@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ by the following early design decisions: * The project solely involves freely licensed tools and resources, and is itself licensed under Free licences that encourage collaboration. -### Scope limited to use for authoring +### Scope limited to use for authoring {#sec-phase1} The scope of this project is to enable annotating while authoring. Rendering that makes use of annotations is outside this scope, @@ -104,6 +104,15 @@ as illustrated in @fig-phase1. ### Added syntax in the spirit of Markdown {#sec-spirit} +Markdown is a lenient markup language. +Partly this is derived from Markdown being a superset of HTML, +which is (or was, when Markdown was introduced) based on SGML +that by design permits parsers to omit markup they cannot handle +[@Connolly1994, section "SGML as a Layered Communications Medium"]. +Partly it is due to a deliberate design choice, +as reflected in the quote introducing this paper: +The format should be easy to both write and read in source form. + *FIXME: rewrite as more fluent prose* In the source format of Markdown with annotations... |