A89: Re: TCML

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A89: Re: TCML


I like this idea with one exception- the way a line is defined.  I think that the browser should
continue the line until it reads the

B

command on a TCML line.  Let me explain using your example:

TCML code:

:C
:3Nate's
:ITCML
:Ihttp://www.tcml.org/home.tcml
:3 Page!
:B
:L
:2Here's where I keep all of my TCML stuff online.  Bla, bla, bla

The ":" chars are there because the TI-89 puts them in a text file.  Of course, there is a space
after "Nate's " so it won't seem as though "Nate'sTCML" weren't one word.  Also there is a space in
front of "Page!" and not after "TCML" so that "TCML " won't be a link, but the space will still be
there.  And so, depending upon how links are displayed from the TI browser.. it'll look something
like this:

                    Nate's TCML Page!
Here's where I keep all of my TCML stuff online.  Bla, bla, bla

I opted to use ZeromusMog's way of one-char tags better, because then there will be less to decode
every line if we make it this way.

-Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
ICQ: 13217756       IRC: Killer2        AIM: MRayMan
http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_rayman/

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Mueller <nlmueller@students.wisc.edu>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 5:47 PM
Subject: A89: TCML


>Well here's my last idea for TCML.  It is designed so the slow 89 can
>process it quickly and easily -- not for lots of fancy features.
>
>Text size:  There is no reason for more then three sizes -- regular, small
>and a new large size
>Justification:  Left, right and center
>
>Each property would hold for an entire line.  Unlike HTML, you can not
>switch styles mid-line.  These properties would be represented by a simple
>multicharacter tag at the begining of each line.
>
>3C Nate's TCML Page!
>2L Here's where I keep all of my TCML stuff online.  Bla, bla, bla
>
>This would center "Nate's TCML Page!" in large letters on the top, with
>everything else left-justified in normal font below it.  Text wrapping will
>be used.  But how will this support links?
>
>If I wanted to link the text "TCML" to another site inside my line "Here's
>where I keep all of my TCML stuff online" I would write the TCML code like
>this:
>
>2L Here's where I keep all of my
>IL TCML
>IL http://bla.com/bla/bla
>2L stuff on line
>
>The browser will use the first line with IL as the hypertext, the next as
>the hyperlink, and then continue the line with the third.  Everything would
>be on the same line.  If styles like underline are desired, this system can
>be used to add that within the "one style per line" constraint.
>
>After you were done with the final document you would run it through a
>simple parser.  It would change the two character tags to single characters
>that the browser could quickly interpret.  A sample table of two character
>tags -> one character tags
>
>1L --> 0x00
>2L --> 0x01
>3L --> 0x02
>1C --> 0x03
>and so on
>
>The parser would be user to simplify page composition since it is hard to
>remember that 0x03 means small text, centered.  Also, low hex characters
>are mostly invisible.  Why translate it to single low characters anyway?
>Because a browser could then use an array of function addresses to display
>the text.  Following the example above, the address for the small,
>left-justify function would be at element 0.  Medium left at element 1.
>With this system parsing a line would take less then five instructions.
>
>If people like this system I could make a proper definition paper and a
>parser.  Please give me some feedback.
>
> --Nate
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