Hi people!
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 05:04:35PM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Thanks for starting the process.
> 
[...]
> 
> To me the point of the standardisation process is to ensure that
> markup in a document is interpreted in the same way in all
> implementations, and the semantics of that markup are the same, not
> its presentation.  Thats the core of the "Asciidoc is a semantic
> markup, not a presentational markup" statement.
> 
> So it seems to me that we need to standardise the syntax of Asciidoc
> markup and to some extent the semantics, but not the output, and that
> unfortunately makes it difficult to generate automated tests, however
> I'm happy to hear solutions.

This is paramount for a number of reasons and I can add one:

po4a supports asciidoc and a specification of the format (not of the
output) is fundamental for the parsing and extracting of the .po strings
process...

TIA for this GREAT effort!

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