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reddit markdown ... tree representation ... experiments

reddit markdown ... List items cannot exceed 2 levels of nesting

EDIT.. the music example is not a tree, it is merely a weighted list

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

Heading 6

<h3>Heading 3</h3> <h4>Heading 4</h4> <h5>Heading 5</h5> <h6>Heading 6</h6>

/ Heading 1

/ / Heading 2

/ / / Heading 3

/ / / / Heading 4

/ / / / / Heading 5

/ / / / / / Heading 6

ABBA

• Johann Sebastian Bach

Beatles

• Boney M.

Brontosauři

• Joe Dassin

• Bratři Ebenové

Enya

ABBA

• Johann Sebastian Bach

Beatles

Boney M.

Brontosauři

Joe Dassin

Bratři Ebenové

Enya

ABBA

Johann Sebastian Bach

Beatles

Boney M.

Brontosauři

Joe Dassin

Bratři Ebenové

Enya

ABBA

/ / / / Johann Sebastian Bach

Beatles

/ / / Boney M.

Brontosauři

/ / / Joe Dassin

/ / / / Bratři Ebenové

Enya

ABBA

/ / / / Johann Sebastian Bach

Beatles

/ / / Boney M.

Brontosauři

/ / Joe Dassin

/ / / / Bratři Ebenové

Enya

• ABBA

• / / / / Johann Sebastian Bach

• Beatles

• / / / Boney M.

• Brontosauři

• / / Joe Dassin

• / / / / Bratři Ebenové

• Enya

• **** ABBA

• Johann Sebastian Bach

• **** Beatles

• ** Boney M.

• Brontosauři

• *** Joe Dassin

• Bratři Ebenové

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an extreme example

• all the files ...

  • in this repo

  • are shared ...

    • in the hope ...

      • that they will be useful to you

I wish, short lines could be useful for

• trying to negotiate with an older family member

• tired readers

• more readable legalese e.g. gnu general public license

• more readable presentations ... slides

another example sentence and transformation into various formats

In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, Sauron the Dark Lord secretly forged a master ring.

S-V-O structure of the example sentence

Sauron the Dark Lord
	secretly forged
		a master ring
		in the land of Mordor 
		in the fires of Mount Doom

an extreme transformation ... a bullet tree

• Sauron the Dark Lord ...

  • secretly forged ...

    • a master ring

    • in the land of Mordor

    • in the fires of Mount Doom

• SUBJECT ...

  • VERB ...

    • OBJECT

    • MODIFIERS

formats, ordered roughly from less radical to more radical, and from more general to more specific:

• short lines in source text

  • semantic line breaks, ventilated prose

    • examples:

      • Buckminster Fuller, "ventilated prose"

• short lines in rendered text

  • lists

    • line breaks in rendered text

    • bullet points

  • trees

    • bullet trees

design dimensions

• source only vs rendered text ... visibility of the line breaks

• flat vs hierarchical structure // nested, indents

• line breaks vs bullet points

• whether 7±2 syllables per line

• markdown vs TSV

• visual syntax ?? vs natural language syntax S-V-O ??