[TUHS] Re: Proliferation of book print styles

Hi Mark, I think that's his LEXX editor which did live parsing and could be initialised with parsing tables. LEXX — A programmable structured editor DOI:10.1147/rd.311.0073 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224103825_LEXX-A_programmable_stru… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEXX_(text_editor) Collins, a rival in dictionaries, used troff for a long time to produce theirs. Don't know what they do now. The University of Nottingham chose device-independent troff for their examination papers over TeX because the PDP-11 was affordable compared to the VAX. The troff source licence cost £4,000 around ’82. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/28692919_In-house_Preparation_of_E… For markdown, the CommonMark folk have been improving this for a while. ‘We propose a standard, unambiguous syntax specification for Markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate Markdown implementations against this specification. We believe this is necessary, even essential, for the future of Markdown. ‘That’s what we call CommonMark.’ — https://commonmark.org Just treat it as an error rather than attempt recovery? Although the rendered version could be flipped to, or viewed in parallel, it would be read only and only get so far; the bug would need fixing in the mark-up view. -- Cheers, Ralph.