On 18/09/2012, at 3:57 PM, José Lopes wrote:
The problem with Fmark is also its greatest feature. While other markup languages introduce special syntactic characters to give meaning to the document's elements, I would like to take a different approach: I want to use characters that people already use in document writing to achieve the same result. For example, in Mediawiki a heading is some text surrounded by equal signs. But in Fmark a heading is simply some text that does not end in a punctuation character, such as period or an exclamation mark. I argue that this is a more "natural" approach.
The problem with that is that some people DO end some headings with a full stop; for them your special syntax is not natural.
I want to find a natural way of not burdening the user with the task of having to learn some special syntax in order to write a document.
You haven't found it. What you *have* is very special syntax expressed using several methods, AND IT IS NOT DOCUMENTED. I have read the examples, and I can find nothing explaining what the syntax is. For example, I find indenting subsections rather unnatural and error-prone. (For example, moving a paragraph from a deep location to a shallow one would create a new subsection unintentionally.) Is the amount of indentation fixed? How many levels of subsections are supported? What if I want to use indentation to express quotation instead? How do I embed source code? How can you get an example of Fmark in an Fmark document without having it acted on? I could go on and on with questions about syntax.