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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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