A tag based markup language that forces the writer into such specificity that even the Autonomous PeterSealy Machine (see link) would be unable to provide useless comment.-- st3f, May 02 2001 Autonomous PeterSealy Machine http://www.halfbake...eterSealy_20MachineThankfully there's only one, eh Egnor. [st3f, May 02 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004] baking... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanmarkup<patronizing head-shake>haven't we been through this already?</patronizing head-shake> [globaltourniquet, May 02 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004] what the title unfortunately made me think of http://kobiljak.msu...tions_F/CNS_1h.html [hob, May 02 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004] HumanML http://www.oasis-op..._abbrev=humanmarkupThe Human Markup Language discussion moved to this new site. [bristolz, May 12 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004] That should say "tag-based"-- globaltourniquet, May 02 2001 Wonderful! Tags could contain qualifying statements about the intended usage, alternate definitions of words, all sorts of pedant-defusing remarks, like--
<intentional satiric misuse> <dialectic spelling> <exaggeration for effect>
And so on. Yes!-- Dog Ed, May 02 2001 [global...] <dodgy_covering_remark>It did but then I edited it.</<dodgy_covering_remark> It didn't look right.
<genuine_surprise>Where's Peter?</genuine_surprise>-- st3f, May 02 2001 Don't worry, UB, luckily it's pretty much impossible.-- egnor, May 03 2001 <IF No PeterSealy annotation THEN pedantic override>I happen to like PeterSealy's comments</IF No PeterSealy annotation THEN pedantic override>-- thumbwax, May 03 2001 This sounds only slightly more fun than progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (see link).
That Human Markup thing is really sick.-- hob, Aug 05 2001 <pml effect="rationalisation of implementation possibilities">This could be implemented as an extension to HTML. A browser option ("I am a pedant") would turn <pml> tags into links or display popup text within "effect" and possibly other attributes.</pml> <pml effect="qualifier to support of idea">This would have an unfortunate effect on "nuance, humour and sponaneity," not to mention writing time.</pml>-- jabbers, Aug 19 2001 random, halfbakery