Would it be helpful to think about digital image preservation? It seems to be a similar problem structure to what you are talking about.
E.g. There is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format which aims to be the lowest common denominator imageformat. You convert images to a "Portable pixmap" and then reconvert to to another format. Maybe a commonly agreed upon Abstract Syntax Tree, between various lightweight markup format? ------ # This is what a pbm file looks like (Easy to downconvert to, and easy to upconvert from): P1 # This is an example bitmap of the letter "J" 6 10 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Gerald Bauer <gerald.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello bowerbird, > > Again thanks for the great comments. > > Time to rediscover the classics and the Project Gutenberg! Will > try to get a Hemingway Challenge started in the next weeks. Stay > tuned. Cheers. > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net > https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
