Parsing Markdown or Curl poetry markup for poets is not a topic likely to interest most poets.
Poetry markup should be something poets are able to choose to use in order to be free of entanglement with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and other IT giants.
Most poets are likely unaware that there are text-oriented programming languages with enough AI to be useful.
Perhaps "
Icon Programming for Humanists" was the last effort to interest literary folks in writing REAL code ?
The importance of simple parsing is this: you can take your simple markup and you can control or at least choose how your markup decisions are converted to HTML or an EPUB or whatever.
Markdown means being free of Microsoft Word format and RTF format and PDF crud.
Markdown is minimalist markup.
A poetry extension to markdown adds your choice of how to indicate indentation, alignment, verses, epigraph or epigram and even versions of a verse or poem and your editorial annotations.
My simplest MIT Curl programming language markdown examples have been
{poem and
{verse with each ending with a matching
}.
Curl is now something we should revisit. It was shutdown by objections to users paying a fraction of a PENNY to view a web page as an alternative to advertising and subscribing. The claim at the time was that all OPEN software should be COMPLETELY FREE.
But poets may wish to protect copyright and to receive even the most modest reimbursement for visiting or perhaps only for RE-visiting their work on–line.
A poetry professor who assigns a poem means that the poet will be reimbursed if the web page permitted fraction of 1¢ payment.
Today, MIT's Curl web programming language is the property of SCSK corporation of Tokyo, but it can still be used freely for many purposes. A creative writing department with a Curl license could make this useful language available to its students on its web site.
Note:
Curl is not cURL, a common source of confusion.
ICON is not about "icons" but about programming choices, alternatives or actions with
text.
