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Lightweight document format `Predoc' (draft version 0.1.0)
* Abstract
Predoc is a document format which has minimal features. So, Predoc is a
subset of HTML format.
* Format
1. A HTML subset
- Use "pre" , "a" and "img" tags only.
2. A suffix is ".html"
3. You can choose popular character encoding in your country.
(I recommend ISO-2022-JP encoding for Japanese users)
4. Please enclose whole document with <pre> and </pre>.
* Features
1. Flexible layout as plain-text and you can add image and hyper-link.
2. You can open document with double-clicking operation on various operating systems.
* Advantages of Predoc
1. You can use any text editor.
2. You can host Predoc files as web pages. ( So, Predoc is HTML format. )
3. You can copy and paste a text from Predoc in the mail text.
4. You can use any browser to view and print.
5. You don't need to compile it. ( So, Predoc is HTML format. )
* Archived Predoc
If you want to send your Predoc files via mail, I encourage to use ZIP (file format) .
1. Please archive these files to ZIP file.
- index.html (indexes to *.html)
- *.html
- img/*.png or *.jpg or *.bmp or etc ... (graphic files)
2. Please rename the ZIP filename as the document title.
* About development
We develop Predoc format and related tools on sourceforge.jp .
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