Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2018-04-03, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:34:19 +1000 > Alan Tyree wrote: >> Hello Steve, >> I would think YAML is the best choice here. It is easy to type and >> easy for the beginner to understand. You could provide simple >> templates for the most common cases. My own feeling is

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:34:19 +1000 Alan Tyree wrote: > Hello Steve, > I would think YAML is the best choice here. It is easy to type and > easy for the beginner to understand. You could provide simple > templates for the most common cases. My own feeling is that anything > more complicated is goin

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Alan Tyree
Hello Steve, I would think YAML is the best choice here. It is easy to type and easy for the beginner to understand. You could provide simple templates for the most common cases. My own feeling is that anything more complicated is going to turn off would-be authors. Good luck with this project! Re

Re: Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Shay Riggs
I like Yaml. Easy to read, easy to type, easy for humans to comprehend. I think I’d prefer it. You could also have a look at CSS syntax as it’s kind of a halfway house between Yaml and JSON. Not sure how you’d deal with hierarchical data though. My thoughts on JSON are that if you’re going to use

Recommendations for metadata storage in Stylz

2018-04-01 Thread Steve Litt
As many of you know, I'm in the middle of creating an authoring format called Stylz. You author Stylz docs in any old editor. Think of an Asciidoc knockoff which greatly prioritizes styles based authoring at the expense of Asciidoc's "we do it all for you." One of my tasks in order to reach Minimu