Aftertext

I like this a lot, and I think it's an important contribution! I think it's a major advantage that the formatting description is provided using words rather than combinations of…

This is really cool. A bit verbose for my taste, but OTOH it could be easier to remember than markdown or html. For example, I often forget the syntax for links in markdown - do…

Here's an interesting benefit this has over inline markup languages: it's natively compatible with text-based CRDTs. Normally, collaborative rich text editing is a strictly…

This will be lovely for parallel text: annotating each word with its translation AND retaining the original as well as the annotations in readable form. Even overlapping ranges…

Seems verbose having to repeat everything so often. Given how often I alias stuff after only a few repeats, I can see this becoming annoying quick. Still always cool to see…

The thing I like about markdown and similar syntax's are the simplicity and succinctness. When you take the markup out of context, well you lose context. My issue with this would…

This is really cool. A bit verbose for my taste, but OTOH it could be easier to remember than markdown or html. For example, I often forget the syntax for links in markdown - do…

This is an interesting idea, though I'd be worried that it could complicate the editing process compared to mixed content and markup. In particular, the examples of selectors in…

This is horrific, imagine changing your text and having to update the indices

That looks very inflexible for later edits, marking characters or words means a potentially cumbersome recounting if something is reworded or just if a typo is fixed. Also, I get…

This is horrific, imagine changing your text and having to update the indices

Neat idea, though as I was playing around with it I noticed right away that the following seems to be impossible (or else very non-obvious) via Aftertext: "How much wood could a…

Interesting lang. ``` aftertext It's the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse. italics off italics off ``` Yields (in…

The current implementation just matches the first match, as that was the simplest and most common occurrence. But I have indeed hit this footgun (though it in my case involving…

> but with Aftertext the bytes increase linearly with N, the size of the span you are marking up Maybe allow regexes for the span?

Or dive into AWK-style selectors all the way: ``` aftertext The fox jumped the dog /^The/ italics 15,18 italics ```

> regexes You could do that. I have not needed regex selectors yet but would be easy enough to add if someone had a need.

It starts getting clunky but I added some new keywords to handle the multiple hits scenarios: match and matchAll. Demo:…

I like this a lot, and I think it's an important contribution! I think it's a major advantage that the formatting description is provided using words rather than combinations of…

I like this a lot, and I think it's an important contribution! I think it's a major advantage that the formatting description is provided using words rather than combinations of…

How do you distinguish between *text that looks like this* and _text that looks like this_?

Very cool, I'm curious have you noticed any productivity improvements after using this to write?

It's actually extremely old school. ROFF is similar to this You can just make it .p, .i, .b, etc. .br for line break. https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/7-groff_man/

Wouldn’t ROFF require putting the format commands in-line? Like so: ``` How much .i wood would a .i wood chuck chuck if a .i wood chuck could chuck .i wood? ``` I have no…

This is really cool. A bit verbose for my taste, but OTOH it could be easier to remember than markdown or html. For example, I often forget the syntax for links in markdown - do…

``` aftertext Just a guess, but maybe bold a guess paragraph open aftertext a guess that could work. underline a guess ``` Might render to: ``` Just *a guess*, but maybe _a…

Interesting. Seems like there is some overlap with reStructuredText.

> Could Aftertext be made inline with a small number of symbols and result in a net reduction of symbols and greater explicitness and intuitiveness? For example, could an unusual…

This is really cool. A bit verbose for my taste, but OTOH it could be easier to remember than markdown or html. For example, I often forget the syntax for links in markdown - do…